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New Horizons for the Clinical Specialty of Anti‐aging Medicine: The Future with Biomedical Technologies
Author(s) -
KLATZ RONALD
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1356.041
Subject(s) - specialty , medicine , preventive healthcare , life span , alternative medicine , health care , biomedical technology , medical care , healthy aging , gerontology , engineering ethics , family medicine , public health , nursing , engineering , pathology , political science , law , agricultural engineering
Anti‐aging medicine is a medical specialty founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age‐related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. It is a health care model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy life span in humans. As such, anti‐aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible medical care consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties. Because it embraces the use of biomedical technology, anti‐aging medicine offers a hopeful model of health care in which healthy human life spans of 120 years and longer may be achieved—if we employ anti‐aging therapeutics today, and encourage the continued expansion of biomedical technologies to prevent, treat, and cure diseases.