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Alzheimer’s disease affects millions of families, but it does not affect every community equally. African Americans are about 1.5 to 2 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than white Americans. At the same time, they may be less likely to receive an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. This creates an important question: Why does this gap exist, and what can we do about it? Understanding Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s is a disease that affects the brain, memory, and thinking. Inside t

According to British-Canadian medical anthropologist Margaret Lock, Alzheimer’s disease “is ranked as the fourth-biggest killer in the United States, and the massive sum of $100 billion” is spent every year on patient care. Currently, an “estimated 6.9 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s” (Alzheimer’s Association). For the past many years, Alzheimer’s has become an increasingly concerning mental disease, with the elderly population being impacted the most. The menta

According to Cassia Peralta, MBA from Wharton’s Magazine, the US company Questcor had raised the price of one vial of Acthar gel from 40 to 23,000 dollars over the course of a few years near 2020. This occurrence had caused much controversy and outrage among US citizens regarding their healthcare system. For many decades, the pharmaceutical market has become increasingly important to the global healthcare industry, being responsible for the production and distribution of cruc

After the COVID pandemic, many Americans realized that there were certain areas that the US healthcare system had to improve for patient care. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a technology that has been exponentially developing the past few years; particularly it has been highly influential in the field of healthcare. In modern times, AI serves as a powerful technical tool that has the capacity to efficiently accomplish complex tasks that traditionally demand excessive h

Seated in my turquoise and white checkered chair A patch of moss brushed under my shoe, asking me to stay Surrounding me grew grass and plants of greenery, so fair Nurtured by sun throughout the day Birds emerged, composing and chirping their tune While dandelions, milk-white, and sunshine-yellow flowers broke through the ground A seed of the dandelion flew to grow into the summer coming soon Passing by three-leaf clovers speckled all around By it, there laid a brown leaf to