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A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: July 11th, 2016, 8:00am UTC

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.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=A+Medical+Mystery+of+the+Best+Kind%3A+Major+Diseases+Are+In+Decline%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F29J7PWt"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F07%2F11%2F0247241%2Fa-medical-mystery-of-the-best-kind-major-diseases-are-in-decline%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/07/11/0247241/a-medical-mystery-of-the-best-kind-major-diseases-are-in-decline?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/07/11/0247241/a-medical-mystery-of-the-best-kind-major-diseases-are-in-decline?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/MSqIm51oPaE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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