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The
identity clinic Carl Elliott argues that happiness has become the goal of
medicine - and it will make us miserable
The Red-Green Divide
Over Human Enhancement Over the coming decades both demographic and technological
trends will turn America's current red-blue divide into a red-green divide --
"red" for those religious Hispanic, blacks and evangelical whites
who will want to stop human enhancement, and "green" for those more
secular Hispanics, blacks and whites who will want to go forward with it.
Bioethics
Group Urges Infertility Scrutiny Bioethics advisers to President Bush are urging more scrutiny of the nation's infertility industry,
including research on the long-term health of test-tube babies. The President's
Council on Bioethics also wants Congress to ban experimental procedures that
might mix human and animal embryos.
Thou
shalt not make scientific progress Medical research is poised to make a
quantum leap that will benefit sufferers from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscular
dystrophy, diabetes and other diseases. But George W. Bush's religious convictions
stand in its way.
MIT
Helps Unlock Life-extending Secrets Of Calorie Restriction Shedding light
on why drastically restricting calorie intake prolongs life span in some organisms,
MIT researchers report in the Jan. 1 issue of Genes and Development that lowering
the level of a common coenzyme activates an anti-aging gene in yeast
Anti-Aging
Gene Most of us think aging is inevitable. But Cynthia Kenyon has committed
her career to proving us wrong.
'Designer
babies' on the NHS Six ‘designer babies’ could be created in
the Midlands by the end of the year - on the National Health Service.
Cogniceutical Improves
Verbal Memory in Older Men Nature reports on a new cogniceutical based on
a liquorice extract that improves memory in older men. The substance works by
blocking the activity of a brain enzyme that boosts levels of the stress hormone
cortisol. This hormone is thought to be responsible for eroding memory with
age.
The Limits of Medicine Washington Post op-ed: "Why has our huge investment
in health care left us so unhealthy? Partly it is because so many promised "miracle
cures," from Interferon to gene therapies, have proven to be ineffective
or even dangerous. Partly it's because health care dollars are so concentrated
on the terminally ill and the very old that even when medical interventions
"work," the gains to average life expectancy are small."
Unlikely
nomads: Senior single women take up life on the road With spouses out of
the picture and their children grown, hundreds of senior women are hitting the
road for good, leaving retirement communities, shuffleboard tournaments, and
the snow far behind.
Elderly's
value realized in times of crisis "Yet we still treat the oldest old
as either a messy problem to be solved or as an ancient scroll to be decoded.
That's all wrong. We should be treating them like national treasures and security
blankets in these anxious times."
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