{"id":80749,"date":"2018-07-19T05:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-is-not-a-major-problem"},"modified":"2018-07-19T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:42:23","slug":"not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-is-not-a-major-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-is-not-a-major-problem","title":{"rendered":"Not classing aging as a disease is not a major problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-is-not-a-major-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A common concern in the community is that the FDA, the EMA, and other bodies, such as WHO, do not classify aging as a disease and that this poses a problem for developing therapies that target aging. However, this is not really as serious an issue as some people would suggest; today, we will have a look at why that is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why this will not stop progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aging is a variety of distinct processes, damages, and errors; therefore, simply treating aging in clinical terms is not a viable endpoint. For a clinical trial to be conducted, it requires a verifiable indication, and aging is too general for the FDA and EMA to classify it as a disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-is-not-a-major-problem\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/not-classing-aging-as-a-disease-...r-problem\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common concern in the community is that the FDA, the EMA, and other bodies, such as WHO, do not classify aging as a disease and that this poses a problem for developing therapies that target aging. However, this is not really as serious an issue as some people would suggest; today, we will have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}