Life begins at 100? Experts question age frontiers
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Medical breakthroughs hold   out the prospect of living longer and healthier lives, with   current life span norms set to be turned on their head, an   expert on anti-aging said on Friday.
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The number of people living beyond 100 years has reached a record high in England and Wales, official figures show.
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The Census Bureau says the population of those 65 and older will increase more rapidly in the West than in any other area of the country. While retirees settle in, states are figuring out how to keep up with an aging population. Will there be enough doctors and nurses? Hospitals and nursing homes? Will housing be affordable?
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BusinessWeek Online - Seventy-five years is a mere blink of history's eye. Yet since 1929, when BusinessWeek was first published, the world has been transformed by profound innovation and technological wizardry. Three-quarters of a century ago, there were no safe and effective antibiotics, no jet travel, no commercial television, and no computers. Many died of routine infections. A five-day ocean voyage was the main way to get from America to Europe, and "wireless" meant the wood-paneled Radiola in the parlor. Since then our mastery of the physical and biological world has strengthened remarkably. ...
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NEW YORK  - Older adults with a bright outlook on the future may live longer than those who take a dimmer view, a study out Monday suggests.
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A long life can bring trouble, if you're not ready for it.
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Biologists have uncovered a gene that switches off stem cells as a person ages.
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When you&#39;re 17 or 18, the world is only possibilities. You&#39;re immortal, accelerating down the fast lane of a superhighway stretching to forever.
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Though Alzheimerâs disease seems to suddenly strike in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur.
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CHICAGO: Seniors who want the longest life possible should take the experts&#39; health advice to heart and keep working out and eating right into their 70s and 80s, a study released this week said.
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Psychological stress appears to speed cellular aging the equivalent of up to 17 years of normal aging. The difference shows up in telomeres, DNA-protein structures that cap the end of chromosomes.
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A team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level.
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Parents insist that how kids turn out depends on when they were born. More and more, science agrees
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Women who continue having children late in life may live longer than those who have their kids young, finds research.
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If you have a lot of stress, say researchers at the University of California, your cells will age faster, you will be at higher risk of age related diseases earlier in life - put simply, you will get old faster and more likely die earlier.
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Many Britons would give up sex, their favourite food and alcohol to reach 100 years of age, a poll suggests.
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TORONTO (CP) - It used to be that when you hit 71, you had to retire as a blood donor. No longer, Canadian Blood Services said Monday.