In
December 1996, the Journal of the American Medical Association
announced that the editors of over 80 major medical journals
from throughout the world voted on more than 200 proposed topics
and chose aging as the most important topic for the JAMA’s
second global theme issue. And now you know why.
Encarta readers may reference this important publication (Vol.
278, No. 16, October 22-29, 1997) in libraries or on the World
Wide Web at www.ama-assn.org/jama
The 
