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The Best Practices in Cancer Treatment: What You Need To Know

April  21, 2016

Hello, What if new treatments for cancer and other aging-related diseases were not just right around the corner, but already here? This week, we present some new information about how…

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Ongoing Progress In The International Healthspan Community

April  14, 2016

Hello, Welcome to another exciting week in the healthspan community! This week, we have cause to celebrate. Several causes, in fact! Perhaps most importantly, the Older Americans Act was recently…

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The TAME/Metformin Study

January  23, 2016

The GHPI Fellows behind the TAME/Metformin study, the subject of the new Ron Howard documentary “The Age of Aging”, have initiated the first clinical trials to test a single drug…

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“The Age of Aging”

January  23, 2016

GHPI CEO Edwina Rogers recently traveled to New York for the debut of the new hit documentary “The Age of Aging”. Directed by Ron Howard and debuting on the National…

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Jan. 25, 2016: New Thinktank to Promote Research, Innovation for Treatment of Underlying Causes of Aging-Related Disease

January  22, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25th, 2015 For more information: Aaron Traywick Chief Operating Officer, GHPI 1.334.318.6151 atraywick@healthspanpolicy.org NEW THINKTANK TO PROMOTE RESEARCH, INNOVATION FOR TREATMENT OF UNDERLYING CAUSES OF AGING-RELATED…

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Looking Within for a Treatment to Aging-Related Disease

January  21, 2016

Tony Wyss-Coray studies the impact of aging on the human body and brain. In this eye-opening talk, he shares new research from his Stanford lab and other teams which shows…

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What was THE medical breakthrough in modern history?

January  17, 2016

PROJECT M asked Jay Olshansky from the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago: What was THE medical breakthrough in modern history? Illustrations by Christoph Illigens.  

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A Trial for the Ages: The Metformin Study

January  17, 2016

Metformin, an FDA approved first-line drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, has known beneficial effects on glucose metabolism. Evidence from animal models and in vitro studies suggest that…

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New Research Seeks to Add More Healthy, Productive Years of Life – For Canines

January  09, 2016

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute have embarked on a new research regimen to determine the effects of potential drugs on optimizing…

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FDA Approves Metformin for New Cancer Trials

January  08, 2016

Some exciting research from the University of Montreal has found that the drug metformin, commonly prescribed for diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), has the potential to reduce multiple cancers…

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