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...More evidence that vitamins can prolong life: a five-year study of nearly 30,000 peasants from rural China discovered that vitamin E, beta-carotene and selenium supplements appeared to reduce cancer deaths 13% and deaths from all causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Sep. 27, 1993 | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...continuing life becomes pointless. It's as simple as that." Dramatic self-negation would be a fitting exit for Death's Impresario. But last week Kevorkian made an uncharacteristically humble reappearance with suicide No. 16. By underplaying his hand, he may have found a way to avoid jail -- and prolong his controversial crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx For Death | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...further rechannel the health care dollar to pay the pharmaceutical companies. This chunk of the health budget is growing--medical technology continues to surge ahead at a breakneck pace, bringing with it skyrocketing costs for designing and testing frontline drugs. As the average life expectancy lengthens, the desire to prolong a high quality of living will spur the use of more and more expensive medications...

Author: By Mohammed Asmal, | Title: Unraveling American Health Care | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...medical tale -- one that is more faithful to the way most advances truly take place. It is a story about making many small improvements in patients' treatment and care. It is a story of how each new step builds on the one before until their combined power starts to prolong lives or at least improve the quality of life that remains. It is the story, unheralded by headlines, of growing progress in the treatment of AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Treatment, Longer Lives | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...recently made headlines when studies linked it to aging. Scientists were able to prolong the lives of fruit flies and nematodes by increasing levels of the enzyme in experimental subjects of both species

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Gehrig's Disease Gene Found | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

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