Ethical and legal issues in antiaging medicine

Increasing interest in potential antiaging treatments from both patients and a variety of clinical providers has led to growing sales of these treatments, and to providers now focusing their practices in the area of antiaging medicine. The development, marketing, and prescription of these antiaging treatments to patients involves multiple ethical and legal issues, both for antiaging medicine providers and for conventional providers who care for patients using these treatments. Important among these are legislation that impacts both antiaging treatments and the practice of antiaging medicine. This article seeks to explore these issues, and to provide guidance to providers encountering patient use of or interest in antiaging treatments.