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Scientists Identify Genes For 'Extreme Longevity'

By Katie DrummondJul 1st 2010 – 2:00PM
John Moore, Getty Images

John Moore, Getty Images

(July 1) -- One hundred-year-old Lorna Gobey credits Guinness, cigarettes and a good game of bingo for her remarkable longevity, while Walter Breuning, still robust at 113 years, relies on a daily combination of two meals, a single aspirin and one long walk. The long lifespans of the Okinawa people, meanwhile, seem to...

Background on Boston Medical Center

Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a non-profit 639 licensed-bed medical center in Boston, Massachusetts. It was created by the formal merger of Boston City Hospital (BCH) which was the first municipal hospital in the United States and Boston University Medical Center Hospital (BUMCH) in July 1996 which was sponsored at founding by the Methodists and then by Boston University.

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