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| Position statement on human aging | | Author(s) | S Jay Olshansky, Leonard Hayflick, Bruce A Carnes |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 57A, no 8, August 2002 |
| Pages | pp B292-B297 |
| Keywords | Biological ageing ; Drugs ; Alternative medicine ; Policy ; Standards of provision ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A large number of products are currently being sold by anti-ageing entrepreneurs who claim that it is now possible to slow, stop or reverse human ageing. The business of what has become known as anti-ageing medicine has grown in recent years into a multi-million dollar industry in the US and in other countries. The products being sold have no scientifically demonstrated efficacy - in some cases they may be harmful - and those selling them often misrepresent the science upon which they are based. In this position statement, 52 researchers in the field of ageing have collaborated to inform the public of the distinction between the pseudoscientific anti-ageing industry and the genuine science of ageing that has progressed rapidly in recent years. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021022210 A |
| Classmark | BH: LLD: LK3: QAD: 583: 7T |
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