Disrupting ageing
Get healthier as you get older - that's Victor Dzau's idea of disrupted ageing. And as president of the US National Academy of Medicine, he has a powerful platform to bring together the social sectors to achieve healthy longevity.
IN A world where just about every sector is facing disruption, ageing too has not been spared.
"Ageing is a process of getting older and biologically, your tissues have degeneration and you get disease.
"Disruption would be to create health as you age," Victor Dzau, president of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) tells The Business Times.
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