Nicholas Agar, who is a bio-ethicist from New Zealand, says that longevity institutes are inherently unethical if they are using healthy poor people as subjects for testing. For instance, it is really easy to entice people suffering from aging diseases into experimental medical trials. People suffering from Alzheimer’s disease are well aware that their illness [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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At Cardiff University and University of Warwick, researchers came to the conclusion that money can only make people happy if it does increase their social rank. Apparently, having a high pay doesn’t make people happy. In order for someone to consider himself/herself happy, the payout must be more than his work colleagues and friends. The [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Today, even elders have begun to prefer the option of Live-In relationships to assess how compatible they are with their partners prior to marriage. On 20th November 2011, Mehndi Nawaz jung Hall in Ahmedabad is going to house a public ceremony, the first of its kind, aimed at assisting men and women over the age [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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121 year old Turkish citizen, Gaışhıkaan Sıhıkaan, immigrated to Turkey in 1953 It may have taken awhile, but 121-year-old Gaışhıkaan Sıhıkaan finally became a Turkish citizen. On September 16, 2011, Habermonitor.com produced a news report that summarized this event. In 1890, in the town of Manisa Salihli, Sıhıkaan was born. After 58 years of living [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Life in a country facing explosions of capricious pecuniary state is facing the ignorance of a snubbed community traditionally called as Senior Citizens. This deprived community is not only facing social issues but health, economic and lack in public services are supplementing their loneliness. In the view of ripened people, they are encountering the foremost [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 28, 2011
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Eminent researches envisage that in the forthcoming 40 years, Americans’ life expectancy will be more than what the government actually expects. On Monday, a significant report was published by members of the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society. It states that the U.S Social Security Administration and Census Bureau have miscalculated the average American [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 28, 2011
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One of the most fascinating topics in bio- ethic is human enhancement. Our basic capabilities might in the future be radically advanced, thanks to promising result of scientific developments. We are talking about technologies that will make us smarter, stronger, happier and even morally better-off. Fields of Human Enhancement In recent articles there have been [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 27, 2011
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A recent survey reveals that 43 percent of Koreans don’t consider living beyond the age of 90 as a blessing. In June, the Korean Institute for Health & Social Affairs had a poll of 1,000 Koreans where it was revealed that 43.3 percent of the participants didn’t really aspire to live beyond the age of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Experts say that 15 minutes of exercise per day is all you need to increase your longevity by three years. So you might no longer be able to say that you are too busy to enjoy exercise. A relatively new study, released in the Lancet Medical Journal, highlighted that 1 in 9 cancer-related deaths could [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Recently, on the world conference on AIDS medicine held in Rome, it was announced that Africans on HIV drugs can expect to have a more-or-less normal lifespan. Yet, women suffering from AIDS are expected to outlive men. This was the result of the world’s largest study on AIDS drug and people. Specialized researchers from BC [...]
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