News in Brief Life is short: Apparently only 115 years at the most New research finds that human life expectancy may have reached its natural limit. Oct. 17, 2016Monday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Hallmark can sell milestone birthday cards through age 115, but new research suggests the card maker can stop at that age. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York found the natural life expectancy may have reached its limit. The findings, published in a letter to the journal Nature, examined survival rates after age 100 and found the age at death of the world’s oldest people has not increased since the 1990s when the oldest age attained, except for a few outliers, was 115 years. “At some point, everything goes wrong and you collapse,” explains Jan Vijg, PhD, to The New York Times. He worked on the study with two graduate students. Instead of trying to extend humans’ life spans, Dr. Vijg recommends focusing on promoting healthy lifestyles so people can live healthier longer. Learn more about the study in The New York Times. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleStudents honored for their international research and outreach posters Next articleHow organizing a 'healthy boot camp' could help your patients
TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana.
“Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts.