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Here I was, predicting indefinite life extension the other day, and now a futurist newsletter has a more pessimistic view: we may be eating ourselves to death. Pigging-out may more that offset the gains in longevity from medical progress. True, people won’t live for millennia if they self-destruct. From Futurist Update: The dramatic rise in obesity is the primary catalyst–obesity ...

From TRN: Researchers from the University of Manchester in England have devised a method that delivers human cells unharmed to chosen locations within polymer scaffolds. "The scaffold is… built from a material designed to degrade in the body and be absorbed over a timescale of months," said Brian Derby, a professor of materials science at the University of Manchester. "While ...

I’m waiting for muscles in my back to calm down. While I’m waiting my mind has been turning around ideas about what I think the future will hold. The result is far-out, but I swear I’m not on anything stronger that Advil. Look good, feel good, live forever I have quoted the phrase above from Leonard Schaeffer, CEO of WellPoint, ...

I had the opportunity this weekend—whilst flat on my back with muscle spasms—to read an interesting paper about the state of the US health care “system.” The Journal of Health and Social Behavior has a special issue devoted to the sociology of he health care system. Its introductory article, “A New History of the Health Care ‘System’”, recaps the history ...