"a leaky gut may play a critical role in the development of age-related inflammation and frailty"

The quote heading this post is taken from the findings reported by Yanfei Qi and colleagues [1] who set out to investigate whether " a...

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Autism, ageing and comorbidity

I'm not spending too much time today on the findings published by Elizabeth Wise and colleagues [1] but did want to bring them to your ...

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Science journals: Anything for a headline

W ell, this week's sensational result is reported in the Oct 5  Nature  in a paper about limits to the human lifespan. The un sensatio...

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Cancer moonshot and slow-learners

M otivated by Vice President Biden's son's death at an early age from cancer, President Obama recently announced a new health initia...

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The Elephant (not) in the Cancer Ward

R ecently, Tomasetti and Vogelstein (the latter a senior and highly regarded cancer geneticist) suggested that most cancer is due just to b...

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On Being Mortal

K en and I have written a lot about disease causation, prediction and prevention but we haven't written much about the other side, when ...

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An age-old surprise....or not

Y esterday's Big Story of the microsecond on the BBC's web page  was the profound discovery by scientists that people age at differe...

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Retirement harmful to health or... an uncertainty principle?

Years and years:  but who's counting? Breaking news!  As reported by the BBC ("Retirement Harmful to Health"): "...the ch...

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