Stories with tag: "News"
Cancer
Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women
Can be eliminated by regular mammography screening
Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease
Number of People with Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease May Triple by 2050
There's an urgent need for more research, treatments and preventive strategies to reduce the impact of this epidemic
Brain Health & Conditions
Neurological Researchers Find Fat May Be Linked to Memory Loss
People with high amounts of abdominal fat in their middle age are 3.6 times as likely to develop memory loss and dementia later in their life
Brain Health & Conditions
Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease a Much Larger Cause of Death Than Previously Recognized
A new study by researchers at Rush indicates that Alzheimer鈥檚 disease may be one of the leading causes of death in the United States
Brain Health & Conditions
Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease May Be More Prevalent And Manifests Itself Differently Among African Americans
The risk for developing Alzheimer鈥檚 disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population