Category Archives: Cancer and aging

Vitamin pills and healthy aging

By admin | Published: October 14, 2011
The idea that taking vitamin pills can’t hurt and might do some good recently became a harder sell after two studies suggested that the pills may actually increase the risk of death. In one study, involving more than 38,000 older women, taking a daily multivitamin was found to be associated with a 2.4% higher risk [...]
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One for the Record Book

By admin | Published: September 29, 2010
Here’s a curious coincidence: The current world records for human longevity and for running the mile were both set back in the 20th century. The longest-lived human was France’s Jeanne Calment, who reached 122 years and 164 days of age before her death in 1997. In 1999, Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj ran the world’s fastest [...]
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The Birth of Applied Gerontology

By admin | Published: September 24, 2010
Gerontology, the study of aging, has long seemed a field of basic research that’s only tangentially related to the nitty-gritty world of geriatrics, the medical specialty devoted to ills of the elderly. But as gerontologists have delved deeper into the molecular roots of aging, they’ve increasingly found themselves shedding light on what gives rise to [...]
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