Archive for January 8th, 2006

Do we want to live to 140? - Bioethics - Brief Article

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Faculty members from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, have called for a public dialogue about the social implications of antiaging research. Specifically, they urge the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to take “the lead in developing a sustained, widespread program of dialogues that will engage both the biomedical community and the larger public in […]

Longevity, Clonaid receive Silver Fleece awards for 2003 - News and Comment - Brief Article

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

A 2003 Silver Fleece award for antiaging quackery went to Longevity, a product Urban Nutrition, Inc., promotes at www.findlongevicynow.com as containing a “human growth hormone releaser” and an ingredient–2-aminoethyiphosphoric acid-it describes as the “ultimate defense against aging and degenerative disease.”
S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, […]