World Health Organization Staff Continue their Efforts to be Irrelevant in the Matter of Human Aging

The World Health Organization (WHO) is not a group to be looking towards for leadership in the matter of treating aging as a medical condition. This is unfortunate, as the WHO propagates the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) that medical regulators use as a list of conditions for which treatments are permitted, and further has a fair degree of influence over government policy. If there is to be a summary of the WHO position on aging, it is that people should be wealthier, exercise more, and smoke less. Also more should be spent on compensating for the harms done by aging. There is no mention of treating aging as a medical condition, or even of research and development in medical science. Thus enormously expensive government-funded advocacy for lifestyle change is about the sum of the ambition on display at the WHO, despite the fair number of groups attempting to improve WHO programs through open comment and feedback processes. And this in an era of radical progress in biotechnology, and the advent of the first working rejuvenation therapies that clear senescent cells from old tissues! That efforts such as those of the International Longevity Alliance and others to influence the WHO, with the aim of getting the organization to pay more attention to medical research, inevitably produce very little movement is one of the reasons why I think it pointless to attempt to steer bureaucracies. To my mind it is far better to build the first rejuvenation thera...
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