Will Life Extension Be Only for the Rich? | LifeXtenShow

Опубликовано: 18 Апрель 2025
на канале: Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation

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In this episode, Veera deals with one of the most classical concerns about life extension: that it might be a privilege only for rich people, creating a divide between an ever-young elite and poor people aging to death.

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Intro jingle courtesy of Kevin MacLeod - Incompetech.com

"Hungarian Rhapsody N.2" by Franz Liszt, licensed under cc-by-sa Germany license by Bernd Krueger, http://www.piano-midi.de

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Sources and further reading

Data on cost and success rate of clinical trials
Mestre-Ferrandiz, J., Sussex, J., & Towse, A. (2012). The R&D cost of a new medicine. Monographs.

DiMasi, J. A., Grabowski, H. G., & Hansen, R. W. (2016). Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: New estimates of R&D costs. Journal of Health Economics, 47, 20–33.

Fogel, D. B. (2018). Factors associated with clinical trials that fail and opportunities for improving the likelihood of success: a review. Contemporary clinical trials communications, 11, 156-164.

Sertkaya, A., Wong, H.-H., Jessup, A., & Beleche, T. (2016). Key cost drivers of pharmaceutical clinical trials in the United States. Clinical Trials, 13(2), 117–126.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewh...

https://www.clinicalleader.com/doc/th...

Data on poverty and inequality
https://www.gapminder.org/answers/how...

https://ourworldindata.org/global-eco...

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-po...

Data on socialized healthcare
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/he...
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