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Other Press Rooms Many organizations maintain useful press rooms and reprint policies on the topics of aging, longevity medicine, healthy life extension and related political battles. You may find this selection to be useful: InfoAging Press Room Alliance for Aging Research Press Room Immortality Institute Press Room

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Journalists and Healthy Life Extension

Journalists and writers will play an important role in the coming medical revolution. Public education and awareness ultimately determines research funding in any given field, and media efforts drive public education and awareness. The longevity medicine of the near future will only become real when enough people understand the options and resolve to fund the research.

We can view the results of this process in the fight against cancer. Once that battle became a priority in the 1970s - once people understood that cancer could be beaten - then the hard work and real scientific progress could begin. Today, the US National Cancer Institute realistically aims to prevent all suffering and death from cancer by 2015.

We can do the same for aging and its degenerative conditions: find effective therapies and cures within a few decades, provided private and public funding rises to high enough levels. This task has to start with education and awareness, with activists, journalists and writers. You can all do your part to help make lives longer, healthier and better.

Journalists and Writers of Note

A number of respected journalists and other notables write frequently about healthy life extension and related topics, such as stem cell research, regenerative medicine, aging research, life extension politics, and so forth. Sonia Arrison Ronald Bailey David Ewing Duncan Ray Kurzweil Chris Mooney Gina Smith Gregory Stock If you know of other writers who should be on this list, by all means contact us to suggest their inclusion.