Having a Longer View on Downtown Living

Living Longer! Living Happier?

A Christian view on couples living together

Many cohabiters feel unready for, or even afraid of marriage. Cohabitation affords an easier way out of a relationship. Marriage means a total, lifelong, exclusive commitment whereas cohabitors are often committed to a relationship only whilst it provides them with personal satisfaction. Thus cohabitation means weaker relationships than in marriage. Researchers concluded that "cohabitations are...

The cost of living longer

Sexual reproduction and the mixing of alleles that it entails boosts diversity, but also poses a dilemma for individual organisms. given that each organism has ultimately limited resources for reproduction, maintenance and immunity, the choice between fertility and long-term survival is one between two opposite poles of selection that operate across many animal and plant species. the balance be...

Patients Living Longer With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Advances in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer have greatly improved survival for these patients, and novel approaches on the horizon are particularly exciting, according to John L. Marshall, MD, of Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, DC, who described the treatment landscape for this malignancy at 2015 JADPRO Live at APSHO. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is now being recognize...

What Really Matters: Living Longer or Living Healthier; Comment on “Shanghai Rising: Health Improvements as Measured by Avoidable Mortality Since 2000”

The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...