Drugs used to flush toxic cells from the body could revolutionise the treatment of chronic diseases

Scientists have said that they may be able to reverse the frailty of old age after using drugs to flush toxic cells from the body for the first time.

The trial led researchers closer to a revolution in medicine that could transform the care and treatment of older people with chronic diseases.

“It may be possible to delay, prevent and alleviate age-related diseases as a group, instead of going after them one at a time,” James Kirkland, co-author of a paper published in the journal EBioMedicine, said.

The trial was carried out at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where nine subjects who had diabetes-related kidney disease were given a mixture of drugs. For three days they received a medicine usually used to treat