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World’s first clinic that aims to slow down ageing set to open in Singapore

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The Centre for Healthy Longevity at the Alexandra Hospital is a research facility which looks into the ageing process and how ageing can be delayed to ensure longer healthy lifespans - or "healthspans" - instead of just lifespans. Currently its participants are from the public but it will be setting up a disgnostic clinic once it gets the go ahead.

A man getting 3D images of his face done to predict his biological age.

ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

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SINGAPORE – Ageing is a constant in life, but can one slow down the process? Living to a ripe old age sounds good, but not if you are wracked by illnesses. So how does one remain disease-free for as long as possible?

These are some of the issues a new diagnostic clinic by the National University Health System (NUHS) Centre for Healthy Longevity (CHL) aims to address. Expected to be up and running by early 2023, it will be at Alexandra Hospital, where the centre’s main research facility is.

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