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Last week I experienced one of the miracles of life -- the birth of a grandchild. Everett Olshansky was born on 9 September weighing in at 6 pounds 6 ounces; he’s as healthy as can be. Everett was age zero (0) on his Birth Day, and that may sound silly since all...
This is the second volley of opinions on this topic between Dr. Kirkwood and myself. Please take a careful look at exactly what Kirkwood and I said in this exchange. Truth be told, my friend Tom needed to work hard to devise a line of reasoning to support the position...
This question has been the subject of thousands of scientific articles, books and movies over the years, but given the doubling of human life expectancy over the last century and a half and recent advances in medicine, it’s a legitimate question today. The answer has...
In 1964 a scientist by the name of Barkev Sanders, Ph.D. proposed a method of assessing the health status of populations while they are alive. This was distinctly different from measuring and comparing the ‘health’ of populations using death as a frame of reference;...
Estimating duration of life of individuals with any degree of precision requires a level of expertise that is rare. While one approach to survival analysis is to identify keywords in the medical records and to use the presence of those disease states to adjust the...