More and more chronic diseases are crippling the ageing population: cancers, arthritis and arthrosis, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases bring more people to hospitals and to retirement boarding houses. The improvement of medical care and of early diagnostic methods does not suffice to explain this spectacular increment: the incidence of brain tumours in children increases every year and there is now in Europe five more times cases of Alzheimer disease than fifty years ago.
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