In Your Prime review – India Knight tackles ageing with wit
The 48-year-old author’s guide to the joys and challenges of middle age is like a funny, informative conversation, writes Kate Kellaway
Sugary soft drinks may be linked to accelerated DNA ageing – study
Research finds that people who reported drinking 350ml of fizzy drink per day had DNA changes typical of cells 4.6 years older
How we all could benefit from synaesthesia
Developing the mysterious condition in people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age, writes Helen Massy-Beresford
Growing old stressfully: chronic stress and prematurely aged cells
James Kingsland: Apparently healthy older men who have poor social support networks and abnormal physiological responses to stress show signs of accelerated cell ageing
The price of a long, healthy life may be reduced fertility
David Cox: Suppressing a hormone that governs metabolism boosts your chances of living to a grand old age, but there's a downside
I’m a feminist and I’ve had cosmetic surgery. Why is that a problem?
Angela Neustatter: We should talk openly about cosmetic procedures and be supportive of women and men with low body confidence
Cosmetic surgery operations in UK top 50,000 for the first time
Market in 2013 for plastic surgery was mainly female, says data released by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
NHS hospitals are over-run with rules and regulations
Rosemary's stay in hospital was too perfect – she begged to be left alone by nurses who bugged her every half hour with checks and questions that they must carry out to the letter, writes Michele Hanson
‘Ageing is a mixture of gains and losses’: why we shouldn’t fear getting old
Today the rich, multi-faceted experience of getting older has been pathologised and reduced to shame about looking old. But it doesn't have to be this way, says Anne Karpf
The naked truth about nudity among the over-50s
One of the liberating things about reaching middle age is supposed to be freedom from body fascism – but is daring to go bare a step too far?