I think it is important for serious money to be put into fixing the problems of aging, aging needs to have the same stature as other diseases such as Cancer, Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s. These other disease are all aging related diseases as the number one indicator of whether you are likely [...]
Read more →More than half a million people in the uk have irreversible blindness which is caused by macular degeneration. This is close to 1 percent of the whole population. A large portion of these are the elderly. The disease is one where there is a progressive loss of vision in the center due [...]
Read more →Regenerative medicine has the potential to change the face of medicine. It stretches from repopulating skin, to regrowing whole organs. A new heart could be grown from your own stem cells, or muscles could be repopulated countering sarcopenia. It is difficult to understate the importance of this technology.
It may seem odd that [...]
There may be potentially a single treatment which could provide protection against all types of flu. This would be a huge boost as many age related deaths are caused as the immune system is already weak and then being unable to cope with illnesses which at a younger age would be shrugged [...]
Read more →Research has been pioneered at the University of Sunderland which shows that exposure to safe low levels of infra-red light can improve the cognitive functions of the brain. The current state of play with medical treatments for dementia is that they slow the deterioration of the brain, while this treatment could [...]
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