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As we age we are prone to all kinds of aches and pains. Arthritic pain ruins our dancing. Cancer even threatens our life. Educating ourselves about what is coming in the immediate future might enable us to pressure our physicians into looking at the latest advances being made in medical science.  Prevention is often better than the cure. This page is dedicated to promoting our education in the above regard.

 
bulletCan we eat to starve cancer??? William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumour. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.


bullet According to this renowned scientist Danny Hillis, we should not speak of 'cancer' using a noun but instead by using the verb, 'cancering'. Danny Hillis makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body.  Learn of exciting new ways of looking at and potentially treating this feared bodily aberration by  playing the video  below.
 

bullet Is knee and hip joint replacement using  engineering materials really the best way to go? 

Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue. Learn more by clicking below.

 

bullet Imagine making body parts with a digital printer? It is now being done!


 Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him on stage onstage.

 

bulletDr. Mark Hyman researches scientific evidence for the benefits of dietary supplements. He discusses that evidence and comes up with a short list of must have supplements. Why waste money and miss the mark? Read this article.

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