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Anti-aging medicine: the hype and the reality
— Part I | | Author(s) | S Jay Olshansky, Leonard Hayflick, Thomas T Perls |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 59A, no 6, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 513-586 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Alternative medicine ; Preventative medicine ; Biological ageing ; Longevity. |
| Annotation | Debate in the US on anti-ageing medicine has been prompted by a public hearing in the US Senate on 10 September 2001 entitled "Swindlers, Hucksters and Snake Oil Salesmen: the Hype and Hope of Marketing Anti-Aging Products to Seniors" and a subsequent report published by the General Accounting Office. In this and the next issue of Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, scientists from a broad range of disciplines discuss topics associated with the hype and reality behind anti-ageing medicine. Three main topics are considered: the history of anti-ageing medicine; whether ageing is a disease and whether efforts should be made to modify the biological rate of ageing; and varying aspects of the reality of biological ageing, principally how we measure ageing or determine longevity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040817211 A |
| Classmark | LK3: LK2: BH: BGA |
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