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World Health Organization (WHO). They note that the most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for 60–70% of all cases.In the United States, the National Institute on Aging estimate that more than 5.5 million people have Alzheimer’s disease. Most of them are over 65 years of age. The disease is a neurological…

Share on PinterestA recent study asks if experts may have underestimated the COVID-19 death toll.A new study has found that in the U.S., up to 35% of excess deaths during the early phase of the pandemic may not have been directly due to COVID-19.The research, which now appears in the journal JAMA, suggests that experts…

Share on PinterestThe shift in the focus of research to COVID-19 might be detrimental to other areas of research.Last month, Medical News Today published an interview with Dr. Catherine Oldenburg, an infectious disease epidemiologist and co-lead researcher of a new clinical trial investigating a potential treatment for COVID-19.In the interview, Dr. Oldenburg commented on some…

As experts have pointed out, the COVID-19 data for Indigenous communities in the U.S. are reported inconsistently. This is partly due to racial misclassification. Some states record data for Indigenous people with the groupings: “American Indian/Alaska Native,” “Native Hawaiian,” and “Other Pacific Islanders,” while other states lump them all together under the category “Other.”This confusing…

PNAS. The research aimed to better understand the stagnation in life expectancy occurring in the United States over the past 3 decades compared with other industrialized countries.According to the study, the top three factors most closely connected to death are smoking, experiencing divorce, and having engaged in alcohol misuse.The full list of the top 10…