Nature News Featured the Viewpoints of CAC faculty Alan Cohen and John Beard

Nature News featured the viewpoints of CAC faculty Alan Cohen and John Beard on whether to think about aging as a disease. The piece explores the hot topic wherein issues regarding framing aging as a disease could unlock more funding, regulatory pathways, and medical interventions targeting the aging process. Opponents see aging as a natural, universal process, and see inherent in this framing both ethical and regulatory challenges, such as overmedicalization and inequality in access.