ELIXIR TESTS
Pensioners Volunteer
(N.Z.PA.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON.
A thousand old-age pensioners will soon be taking an “anti-age pill” every day in an experiment, backed by two British pharmaceutical firms, to see if the ravages of the years can be warded off by drugs. A retired doctor, Dr. R Smith, who is 65, is in charge of the project. The ‘‘anti-age pills,” medically called anabolic steroids, were first produced in the United States at a cost of several million pounds. Linked with a high-protein diet, the pills are designed to ward off the effects of old age, among them wrinkled skin, stooped, shoulders, and shuffling walk.
‘‘Tests with them in America have already had spectacular results,” Dr Smith said yesterday.
Hk volunteers will be selected from villages around Sunderland, County Durham.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 20
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130ELIXIR TESTS Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 20
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