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11/22/11 - "Touching the 'third rail'"

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Nov. 21 - "Social Security, Medicare Face The Age Of Austerity" - NPR

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Anti-obesity program for low-income kids show promise, study finds

Combating childhood obesity can help prevent problems later in life, such as diabetes and chronic disease. Results of a study led by Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Thomas Robinson MD are important signs of progress in efforts to design health-promotion and disease-prevention campaigns. Read more

Maximizing the Potential of an Aging Population

With the aging of the population, the burden of disability will have an increasingly profound influence across a number of domains, ranging from health care expenditures and the provision of care to older persons’ quality of life, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article co-authored by faculty affiliate Abby King PhD.

Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines

More than 350 members of the campus community attended the inaugural Stanford Food Summit Nov. 3 for a day of cross-disciplinary intellectual ferment about food-related problems.