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I have finished drafting the Power Point presentation for the Society’s 39th annual meeting in Portland Oregon early next month.   I am still polishing up the presentation, fixing mysteriously broken links, adding citations, etc., but I have put it online … Continue reading →

Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. It is a cancer “–  of melanocytes which are found predominantly in skin but also in the bowel and the eye (see uveal melanoma).  — Melanocytes are normally present in skin, … Continue reading →

This blog entry is about three recent research results where the outcomes were the opposite of what might have been expected.  1.     Chocolate consumption and depression are correlated  The April 2919 publication Chocolate and Depressive Symptoms in a Cross-sectional Analysis indicates … Continue reading →

I have posted several blog entries related to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), including  New views of Alzheimer’s disease and new approaches to treating it,  The social cost of Alzheimer’s disease and late-life dementia, Diet and cognition, Warding off Alzheimer’s Disease and … Continue reading →

As a kid in a traditional Italian family, I was raised on olive oil.  And I now consume generous quantities of extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) just about every day.  For one thing, I love its taste.  I am so hooked … Continue reading →

In the recent blog post Harnessing the engines of finance and commerce for life-extension, I characterized a new approach to health, medicine and  longevity called Personalized Predictive Preventative Participatory Medicine (PPPPM). I also promised to describe specific examples in subsequent blog … Continue reading →

On several occasions both in this blog and in my treatise I have pointed out the need for integrating the various disparate theories of aging into an overall systems framework.  Following is the abstract for a presentation I will be … Continue reading →

Suppose I reported that billions of dollars will be spent on life-extension research next year and that soon that number will reach tens of billions?  The first reaction of aging-science researchers would be “no way.”  They would point to the … Continue reading →

I am out attending the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston a good part of this week, paying particular attention to the track on Systems and Predictive Technology.  The conference is focused on a fundamental shift happening in biological and medical research, … Continue reading →

Don’t let the fancy name scare you off.  The underlying concepts are fairly simple.  The basic idea is to go after cancer cells with viruses that kill them.  To help the viruses escape the immune system, they are packaged in … Continue reading →