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Do you want to be 1,000 years old?
Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured
By Health and Science Correspondent Kate Kelland | Reuters – Mon, Jul 4, 2011
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An elderly couple sit on a bench next crocus flowers in a park in Duesseldorf- Mon, Jul 4, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) – If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.
A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to “cure” aging — banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely.
Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure
Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure
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Today, thanks to medical advances, lots of people survive a heart attack. But this means that many people are living with a damaged heart. This can lead to heart failure, which affects more than 750,000 people in the UK.
Right now there’s no way to restore the damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack so we can’t prevent heart failure, but there is hope
