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Alzheimer’s disease

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Dementia without a Cure

Alzheimer’s disease has become incredibly prevalent within the media in the past decade. A neurodegenerative disease afflicting nearly five and a half million people in the United States alone, Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the only top 10 cause of death that is currently untreatable. Alzheimer’s is [...]

Brawn and Brains: Looking at NFL Head Injuries

Any football fan watching a Sunday afternoon game will most likely witness at least one slow‐motion replay of a running back lowering his head as he faces off against a safety, or a defensive end’s helmet colliding with another player’s during a tackle. Fans of professional football bear witness to repeated head trauma during every [...]

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