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A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com)
Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes an article from the New York Times: Something strange is going on in medicine. Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and heart disease, are waning in wealthy countries, and improved diagnosis and treatment cannot fully explain it...it looks as if people in the United States and some other wealthy countries are, unexpectedly, starting to beat back the diseases of aging. The leading killers are still the leading killers -- cancer, heart disease, stroke -- but they are occurring later in life, and people in general are living longer in good health.
The Times cites one researcher's pet theory that the cellular process of aging itself may be gradually changing in humans' favor.
The Times cites one researcher's pet theory that the cellular process of aging itself may be gradually changing in humans' favor.
It's just they are 1) self diagnosing and 2) doctor shopping til they find a doctor who will confirm their suspicions of the latest fad illnesses, like fibromyalgia, which isn't a disease so much as it is an excuse for suburban white women to justify their heroin addiction. And now the gluten shit.... come on, everyone in the USA is suddenly now allergic to bread? Every kid has ADHD and autism now. The list goes on.