Living longer through mitochondrial housekeeping

Living Longer! Living Happier?

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...

Living Longer in Mexico: Income Security and Health.

This analysis of aging and income security in Mexico establishes that the older population in Mexico is increasing quickly and that this population is especially vulnerable to poverty. Mexican citizens are living longer and overall have experienced an improvement in the quality of life compared to that of prior generations. However, this study demonstrates that social improvements are not affec...

Coping with the demographic challenge: fewer children and living longer.

Due to demographic changes, the U.S. Social Security system will face financial challenges in the near future. Declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancies are causing the U.S. population to age. Today 12 percent of the total population is aged 65 or older, but by 2080, it will be 23 percent. At the same time, the working-age population is shrinking from 60 percent today to a proj...