Press Reports and Late Breaking News

Cloning: another pathway to Longevity?

UPDATE 1-Cloning produces unnaturally young cattle - report

See: MSNBC story

Feature story on AntiAging Medicine in the San Jose Mercury News featuring Dr. Miller (Jan 9, 2000)

Cover Story: Youthful Ambitions
   By: Julie Sevrens --  Mercury News health writer

Gunnar K. Gouras, Huaxi Xu^, Rachel S. Gross, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Bing Hai, Rong Wang, and Paul Greengard^,¶

We report here that treatment with testosterone increases the secretion of the non-amyloidogenic APP fragment,  sAPP,  and decreases the secretion of A peptides from N2a cells and rat primary cerebro-cortical neurons. These results raise the possibility that testosterone supplementation in elderly men may be protective in the treatment of AD [Alzheimer's Disease].

[We now have accumulating evidence, as with women and estrogen, for the need to utilize testosterone therapy in the aging male for many of the same reasons: heart, bones, mood, purpose, and now cognitive, neuronal and brain preservation - Ed]

Recent press report from the National Academy of Science on the upcoming book titled To Err is Human.

Date: Nov. 29, 1999
Contacts: Neil Tickner, Media Relations Officer
Megan O'Neill, Media Relations Assistant
(202) 334-2138; e-mail <news@nas.edu>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Preventing Death and Injury From Medical Errors
Requires Dramatic, System-Wide Changes

WASHINGTON - Reducing one of the nation's leading causes of death and injury - medical errors - will require rigorous changes throughout the health care system, including mandatory reporting requirements, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. The report lays out a comprehensive strategy for government, industry, consumers, and health providers to reduce medical errors, and it calls on Congress to create a national patient safety center to develop new tools and systems needed to address persistent problems.

The human cost of medical errors is high. Based on the findings of one major study, medical errors kill some 44,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Another study puts the number much higher, at 98,000. Even using the lower estimate, more people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.

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also see JAMA article on Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients

[We think this is very good news.  In reading the full article you can decide where the players line up. -ed.]

BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
New York Times

WASHINGTON -- The makers of vitamins, herbs and dietary supplements may market products for natural conditions such as morning sickness, hot flashes and memory loss in aging without proving they are safe or effective, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.

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