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Alzheimer’s disease is caused by damage to nerve cells (neurons) in the brain. Neurons are essential to thinking, walking, talking – really all areas of human activity. The majority of people who...
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Cancer has always been with us, at least back to the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth 80 million years ago (cancerous cells have been found in dinosaur fossils). Today, it is the second leading...
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Each year, about 48 million people get sick from foodborne bacteria and viruses, leading to nearly 130,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to Consumer Reports. Although many recover on...
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The United States is the third-most populous country on Earth behind China and India, and, like them, it is growing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there is one birth in the U.S. every nine...
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Infectious diseases have plagued humankind throughout history. When small bands of hunter-gatherers contracted an illness, it might have remained relatively contained; but as agrarian societies...
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On Jan. 20, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S. What followed was nearly two years of serious illness, massive...
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According to a recent study by researchers at Princeton University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August 2021, extreme pandemics like COVID-19 will become more...
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Colman Andrews. Mississippi has the worst adult diabetes rate in the nation at 13.3%,...
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Colman Andrews. West Virginia has the highest obesity rate of any state in the country,...
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year from some form of cancer and millions more have survived thanks to early diagnosis and treatment. This group of diseases linked to uncontrolled...
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Despite significant strides in cancer detection and treatment, cancer remains a scary word. It’s certainly scarier than hearing you have a chronic condition. But the truth is that this potentially...
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Diabetes, a potentially fatal condition that impacts how your body turns food into energy, has become a major health issue in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Obesity is an epidemic in the U.S. The condition has even been described as a leading cause of preventable death in the country because certain obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and...
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The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics reported an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the country during 12-month period ending in April 2021 – an increase of 28.5% from the...
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Life expectancy at birth in the United States is now 76.1 years, the lowest it has been since 1996 – a decline due largely to COVID-19 and to the rise in drug overdoses. (These are 30 famous people...
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