Hawthorne Press Tribune The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - May 18, 2017 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................8 Classifieds............................3 Community Briefs...............3 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Legals............................2, 6-7 Pets........................................4 Police Reports.....................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunn 74˚/59˚ Saturday Sunny 76˚/61˚ Sunday Sunny 77˚/60˚ Hawthorne High Teacher Gets Helpful Honda Classroom Makeover While Hawthorne High School teacher Ivan Flores and his students were on a field trip earlier this month, The Helpful Guys in Blue crashed their classroom to give it a complete makeover with new furniture, accessories and supplies as part of SoCal Honda’s Teacher Appreciation Surprise. Flores runs a program for students with moderate to severe learning disabilities with a main focus on functional skills. The classroom requires supplies the school isn’t always able to subsidize, so Flores covers most of the expenses out of his own pocket. (Photo provided by SoCal Honda) Medical Research Could Be Looking in the Wrong Direction By Rob McCarthy delaying the onset of debilitating diseases. What would life be like if scientists Oshansky is co-author of the book Aging: discovered a cure for heart disease or cancer? The Longevity Dividend that describes this A breakthrough end to one or both of these emerging science, which is funded at a much leading causes of death would save 600,000 lower level than single-disease research lives every year, for starters. If research efforts run through the Cancer Society or yielded a “silver bullet” that killed cancer in the Alzheimer’s Foundation. When the the body and stopped the progression of heart breakthrough on how to put the brakes on damaged, it would be hailed as a modern aging comes, Oshansky expects it to dwarf miracle. However, it wouldn’t guarantee a anything being done to slow the progression long and healthy life for many. of cancer. “Aging really underlies everything, Curing cancer might add 3.5 years to the though funding for cancer research is far average life expectancy and 4.5 years for heart greater,” he says. “This is the next medical disease, according to Jay Oshansky, a public advance.” health researcher. That’s because of what Scientific pursuit involves research dollars he calls “competing risks,” which are other physical and mental health conditions that can attach to the body’s organs and cells with age. Because people are living longer than any time in modern history, we’re entering uncharted waters. “Keep in mind we got exactly what we wanted, which were longer lives. But the price we had to pay was a rise in heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s,” Oshansky said. People living well into their late 70s and 80s are pushing into unknown medical territory, and it merits more study into the aging process and how to keep people healthy and active for as long as humanely possible, he said. Aging science, Oshansky believes, could beat back cancer, heart disease and the other leading causes of Americans’ death without actually curing them. Researchers of human aging study the human body looking at ways to slow the aging process so that people in their 80s are more like 60-year-olds. Oshansky calls it “pushing off the aging process” and --lots of them. Work on aging science is being done close to home, at the University of Southern California’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Dana Goldman a USC professor and director of the center, is doing research with funding from federal and private sources, including some drug companies and a cancer institute. Goldman co-published a paper with Oshansky and others titled “Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the 21st Century” published in the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging. The paper looked at what’s happening among See Medical Research page 8 Free Digital Delivery Herald Publications is now offering to send you a link to your favorite community newspaper every Thursday morning! The emails will also include a list of upcoming local events. Just email us at: web@heraldpublications.com and tell us which local community newspaper you’d like. Simple as that and free!!!
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