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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by joelthelion on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:59PM (#8684160)
People had been looking for a cure for infection for at least 10,000 years, and then we came up with antibiotics.

Science has progressed amazingly during the past centuries. There is no reason to give up hope.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by Retric on Monday December 01, 2014 @05:26PM (#8684366)
There where actually a wide range of effective treatments for infections before antibotics. EX: Hunny works as a topical treatment. Dioscorides (c.50 AD) (http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/november/Molan/honey-as-...) The problem is Aging is a single word discribing thousands of individual problems. It's like someone saying they can solve 'network secuirty' with a simple patch. Cancer is a similar issue because what's being discribed is a symptom not a unified underlying breakdown.

EX: Cantagious cancer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

On the other hand we have zero effective treatments for aging.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by efng on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:37PM (#8685373)
> There where actually a wide range of effective treatments for infections before antibotics.

Antibiotics have been a key vehicle for human life extension. If you think the effect of honey(not sure what hunny is) on a topical wound is anything close to what a modern antibiotic is capable of, you are not paying attention.

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by peteretep on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:54PM (#8685256) 

    > The problem is Aging is a single word discribing 
    > thousands of individual problems
...

    > On the other hand we have zero effective treatments for 
    > aging.
Sure. We just have treatments for many of the thousands of individual problems, and we're developing new ones all the time.
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