anishmarch2009

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 the brain, the...

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 mental disease can be...

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 crucial life-saving...