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July 11, 2016 12:00 pm
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A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline
Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes an article from the New York Times: Something strange is going on in medicine. Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and heart disease, are waning in wealthy countries, and improved diagnosis and treatment cannot fully explain it...it looks as if people in the United States and some other wealthy countries are, unexpectedly, starting to beat back the diseases of aging. The leading killers are still the leading killers -- cancer, heart disease, stroke -- but they are occurring later in life, and people in general are living longer in good health. The Times cites one researcher's pet theory" that the cellular process of aging itself may be gradually changing in humans' favor.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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