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London — The world’s first anti-aging drug will be tested on humans next year in trials that could result in people being able to live healthily well into their 120s.

Scientists now believe it is possible to stop people growing old as quickly and consign diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to history.

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An end to Alzheimer’s disease? People living into their 120s? All thanks to a miraculous new drug?

If you read the story on the this web site from Britain’s Daily Telegraph about a planned trial of the not-so-new drug Metformin, you might have thought “This sounds too good to be true.” And you would have been pretty much right on target.