Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 9th 2016
This report is comprehensive and interested readers are encouraged to review. The authors provided projections on organ donation and transplantation rates, quality-adjusted life years and life years saved, health risks to patients, living organ donation, cross-border exchange, and health inequalities. Their most favorable scenario projected health benefits including transplanting up to 21,000 more organs annually in the EU, which would save 230,000 life years or gain 219,000 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). For social impacts, it was predicted that increasing organ transplantation will have a positive effect on quality of life for organ recipients, and will lead to increased participation in both social and working life activities. RAND Europe projects the economic benefits of implementing policies to improve organ donation and transplantation of up to 1.2 billion in potential savings in treatment costs, and productivity gains of up to 5 billion. These calculations are based solely on increasing transplants by 21,000 more organs annually. Imagine the projected savings globally for completely eliminating organ shortage!
INHIBITION OF MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX I EXTENDS LIFE IN KILLIFISH AND ZEBRAFISH
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/05/inhibition-of-mitochondrial-complex-i-extends-life-in-killifish-and-zebrafish/
In the open access paper linked below, researchers demonstrate modest life extension in the short-lived killifish and zebrafish species by inhi...
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