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Science in the Spotlight
Stem Cells: Small in Size, Big in Hope
Imagine a world without debilitating costly diseases such as Parkinson's, heart disease and diabetes.
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Get Mad Column
Underfunding of Medical Research Threatens Your Future Health
Although medical research is a major avenue to healthy aging, it is seriously under-funded.
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Testimony
Stem Cell Testimony:
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Daniel Perry, Executive Director of the Alliance for Aging Research, discusses recent discoveries involving human embryonic stem cells.
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Brochure
Taking a Closer Look at Age-Related Macular Degeneration
This popular brochure takes a "closer look" at age-related macular degeneration--outlining symptoms and risk factors and offering ways to help reduce your risk.
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Report
When Medicine Hurts Instead of Helps:
Preventing Medication Problems in Older Persons
June 1998
| Alliance for Aging Research
Related topics:
Drug Safety
Misuse of everyday medications by older Americans costs the United States billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, every year, Older people are more vulnerable to adverse drug reactions due to the numbers of medications they take and the biological changes that accompany aging and disease.
When Medicine Hurts Instead of Helps focuses on this susceptibility of older Americans. An estimated 106,000 fatal adverse drug reactions occur ever year and the cost of medication-related problems in all age groups approaches $85 billion annually. Recommendations to alleviate this tragic and preventable problem are outlined.
