How can we live forever?

How long can we live?

The continuing rapid age shift in recent years from predominately a younger to an older population in America and many other countries is a problem of great concern. Its socioeconomic implications for the distant future are quite unpredictable due to our inability to answer a few basic questions. How long will life expectancy continue to increase? What is the maximum possible length of life?

How long can we expect to live?

Female Most developed world regions. Both sexes Least developed countries. Both sexes 1950 50.7 53.4 66.5 35.5 1955 53.9 56.8 68.5 37.7 1960 56.9 60.0 69.8 39.6 1965 59.5 62.7 70.5 41.8 1970 61.4 65.0 71.2 43.6 1975 62.9 66.8 72.2 45.2 1980 64.4 68.5 73.0 47.1 1985 65.7 70.1 74.0 49.3 1990 66.4 70.8 74.2 49.7 1995 67.0 71.4 74.9 52.6 Source: World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision. United...

How to live forever: lessons of history.

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

"How then shall we live?".

This address did not originate in my neocortex, but in a deeper region of my brain, the one responsible for signaling a sense of warning. The sense I have is that a subtle, distinct change is occurring around me that is not quite right. This sense eventually grew into the perception that society, in general, and medicine, in particular, are devaluing the ideals of service and sacrifice. I did n...