Ageing

Among other serious public health issues, the government of China is facing the challenge of having to care for increasing numbers of dementia patients.

Centuries ago, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth, a spring that restores youth to whoever drinks from, or bathes in it.

A strange bacteria found in very old Siberian permafrost has give mice grannies back their youth, and even the ability to have offspring.

The more we learn about the problem of too much medicine and what’s driving it, the harder it seems to imagine effective solutions.