source: www.waaam.net A comprehensive program to reform and advance healthcare in the United States, The A4M Twelve-Point Actionable Healthcare Plan: A Blueprint for A Low Cost, High Yield Wellness Model of Healthcare by 2012 has garnered support from 35 professional medical organizations (more…)

source: www.vanuatumedical.com As we age, a non-enzymatic reaction between sugars in the blood and amino groups in our body’s proteins, fats, and DNA, produces compounds called advanced glycation end-products (appropriately called AGEs). AGEs bond to one another, creating crosslinks (more…)

Genetics: (unfortunately not many of us get to choose our parents!) Lifestyle: With the reduction of stress, good clean living practices that we all understand such as not smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation, avoiding narcotics, eating fresh foods in a balanced diet, drinking (more…)

Regenerative medicine is a type of medical care to regenerate cells, tissues, or organs degeneration or loss after aging, accidents, or diseases and restore body functions. The idea of regeneration in medical care has a long history. In a broad sense, regenerative medicine includes (more…)

Therapeutic cloning will in time allow scientists to create organs that are a perfect match for those in need of a transplant. The cloned organ would be based on the recipient’s genetic material and would not require the use of debilitating immunosuppressive therapies. There would (more…)

Regenerative Medicine is the process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. This field holds the promise of regenerating damaged tissues and organs in the body by stimulating previously (more…)

Life extension refers to attempts to slow down or reverse the processes of aging to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Life extension is the science dedicated to understanding the processes of aging and to developing ways of slowing them down or reversing them. The goals (more…)

The scope of stem cell-based regenerative medicine is defined by the convergent repair triad of replacement, regeneration, and rejuvenation. The “R3” paradigm of therapeutic repair highlights that these strategies overlap in practice while inherent distinctions conceptualize (more…)

Progress in stem cell biology has been accelerated through the integration of the fundamental fields of molecular embryology and immunology with the emerging multidisciplinary fields of systems biology, bioengineering, and disease networks. The translation into the clinical applications (more…)

Organ transplant is fast becoming a demand in the field of medicine and health. Some fifty years ago, the first ever kidney transplant was successfully performed, paving the way for the development and further research of the transplantation of other organs other than kidneys. Nowadays, (more…)

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