Anti-Aging Medicine: Fallacies, Realities, Imperatives
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Anti-aging medicine: fallacies, realities, imperatives.
LAST year’s double special sections of the Journal on ‘‘Anti-Aging Medicine’’ featured several contributions from the distinguished experimentalist Leonard Hayflick. Among these was ‘‘‘Anti-Aging’ is an Oxymoron,’’(1) which ends with a question that clearly lays out the importance of the subject of these issues: since there is an ‘‘almost universal belief by geriatricians that the greatest risk...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1079-5006,1758-535X
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/60.10.1228