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Patient Data-Driven Personalization Key to Fixing Today's Broken Health Assessments

ON AVERAGE, WE live 8 years longer than we did in 1970. The problem is, even though we’re living longer than we ever have before, we are not necessarily living healthier. In fact, we are living sicker in the last 10-15 years of life.

Modern medicine and medical treatments are prolonging our lives, even helping us live with diseases that were otherwise fatal.

But we’re also in the habit of reacting to and medicating diseases that are preventable: diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, certain cancers among other common complex diseases. Quality of life has suffered in this paradigm.

It’s regrettable, but it’s changing. We’re becoming increasingly curious…

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 Patient Data-Driven Personalization Key to Fixing Today's Broken Health Assessments

ON AVERAGE, WE live 8 years longer than we did in 1970. The problem is, even though we’re living longer than we ever have before, we are not necessarily living healthier. In fact, we are living sicker in the last 10-15 years of life.

The Longevity Project

Our Mission: to promote transformation in support of longer life.

Better Life Index

There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

Age and Ageing

Age and Ageing is an international journal publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology. Its range includes research on ageing and clinical, epidemiological and psychological aspects of later life.

Age UK

Age UK aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research.

Alliance for Aging Research

The Alliance for Aging Research is dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.

Anti-Aging News

Die Plattform für Anti-Aging Medizin und Prävention.

AntiAging.com

As pioneers in the rapidly expanding anti-aging field, we are increasingly imitated -- but never duplicated.

Blue Zones

We are on a mission to help people Live Longer, Better.

Calico

Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan. We will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Executing on this mission will require an unprecedented level of interdisciplinary effort and a long-term focus for which funding is already in place.

Fight Aging

The Fight Aging! mission remains the same as it was at the outset: to encourage the development of medical technologies, lifestyles, and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily, and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality.

Happify

Our vision is to use cutting-edge science and innovative technology to empower individuals to lead happier, more fulfilling lives.

Healthy Aging For Women

This is about getting healthy and staying healthy. You cannot really do that without information. It"s hard to find good information online sometimes, and if your primary provider is as busy as I am, they may not have the time or take the time to make sure you understand. I know! I hear it in my practice all the time.

Kurzweil

KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world.

Life Extension

Life Extension is a global authority on health, wellness and nutrition as well as a respected provider of scientific information on disease prevention. We supply only the highest quality premium grade dietary supplements, minerals, herbs and vitamins.

Living to 100

The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be.

LongeCity

Welcome to LongeCity the premier forum about extending the human lifespan

Longevity-Science.org

This scientific and educational website contains over a hundred of scientific and reference documents relevant to longevity and aging studies.

Maximum Life Foundation

Maximum Life Foundation will show you how to add up to 15 healthy years to your life now... and will help control aging and aging diseases for most individuals by 2030.

Methuselah Foundation

Because saving lives is the most valuable thing anyone can spend their time doing, and since over 100,000 people die every single day of causes that young people essentially never die of, you'll save more lives by helping to cure aging than in any other way.

QualityCounts.com

For those health conscious consumers and medical professionals that are looking to purchase nutritional supplements, vitamins, herbs, learning about medications, losing weight, health food, low carbs, high protein nutrition, and exercise, you have come to the right place.

Rest of Life

We have one goal: to provide unbiased communications that help Americans prepare for retirement. To have a great retirement, you should plan for your finances, health and life fulfillment.

Reversing Disease for Optimal Health

Dr. Jack Kruse is a respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life, a health and wellness company dedicated to helping patients avoid the healthcare burdens we typically encounter as we age. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurologic Surgeons, and Age Management Medicine Group.

Senescence.info

An educational and information resource on the science of aging.

SENS Research Foundation

SENS Research Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is transforming the way the world researches and treats age-related disease. The research we fund at universities around the world and at our own Research Center uses regenerative medicine to repair the damage underlying the diseases of aging. Our goal is to help build the industry that will cure these diseases.

T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

At the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, we believe that you have the right to better health and better information. We advocate for evidence-based education and resources. The cornerstone of this education is our Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program in partnership with eCornell featuring lectures from over 20 MDs, PhDs, RDs, RNs and more.

Xtend Life

Unbiased and up to date information so you can take better control of your health.

Younger Next Year

A place for readers and web-fans to talk to us about their experiences and their ideas for getting Younger Next Year. We simply KNOW that this whole process works better if it is done with others.

American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine

Established in 1992, A4M is a global medical education provider. Through our Anti-Aging Academy, we provide Anti-Aging breakthroughs, practical knowledge, treatment modalities and skills for the practicing physician and health practitioners through our live conferences and online programming.

Better Life Index

There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

BioBank

UK Biobank is a major national health resource, and a registered charity in its own right, with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses — including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia.

Center for Research and Education on Aging

Welcome to the website of the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Research and Education on Aging! Our mission is to investigate the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span.

Gerontology Research Group

Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers dedicated to the quest to slow and ultimately reverse human aging within the next 20 years.

Healthcare Industry Today

Anti-Aging News is an EIN News Service for health professionals. Constantly updated news and information about health.

International Society for the Study of the Aging Male

The International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM) was formed and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1997 with the objective of promoting research, study and education on all matters relating to men's health after the age of 30. The Society aims to encourage physicians and other health-care professionals to understand male illness in the context of the aging process as a whole and to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for male patients.

Know Your Number

Assessing the likelihood that individuals will develop a chronic, preventable disease resulting in poor quality of life, declining productivity, and higher healthcare costs has become a major concern for healthcare providers, insurers, and employers alike. Each individual is unique and requires personalized assessment based on the best medical evidence. Know Your Number® can help.

More Life

Excellent health is necessary for high quality of life. If you are not healthy you will not have the capacity, nor often even the desire for happiness.

National Council on Aging

Our programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, increase access to benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.

PreventDisease.com

PreventDisease.com is dedicated to bringing you the highest quality health information on the Internet. It is our vision to one day use preventive education as an essential tool in primary healthcare worldwide to achieve better health and prevent disease.

Preventive Medicine Research Institute

The Dr. Dean Ornish Lifestyle Modification Program uses a comprehensive approach to address the underlying causes of disease rather than merely treating its symptoms.

Science of Aging Knowledge Environment

From October 2001 to June 2006, Science's SAGE KE provided news, reviews, commentaries, disease case studies, databases, and other resources pertaining to aging-related research. Although SAGE KE has now ceased publication, we invite you to search and browse the article content on this archive site.

Sierra Sciences

Sierra Sciences, LLC. (Sierra) is a biotechnology company whose goal is to develop medicines and therapies that will reverse the effects of human aging; enabling people to live longer lives, with health and vigor, free of many of the debilitating effects of old age.

The Preventive Medicine Center

The Preventive Medicine Center is dedicated to promoting a realistic, supportive, holistic approach to health - achieving disease prevention and reversal, where possible, through a combination of innovative, traditional, and alternative methods.

The Longevity Game

How long can you expect to live? We developed the Longevity Game to give you a peek into your future by identifying the factors that can lead to a healthier, more productive life.

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