Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests
Gina Kolata reports on a study by IBM researchers suggesting that writing patterns may help to predict Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders years before other symptoms appear.
‘Just Cruel’: Digital Race For COVID-19 Vaccines Leaves Many Seniors Behind
I keep seeing stories from several news sources about older adults eligible for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine who are having trouble making an appointment.
This article does not contain a link to a central information page. But the CDC offers a page where you can find your state health department. Click here.
It’s not just the pandemic. The moon may be messing with your sleep, too, UW researchers find.
Recent research from the University of Washington suggests that “people tend to have a harder time sleeping in the days leading up to a full moon.”
50 Things Turning 50 In 2021
Among things turning 50 this year: Disney World, McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, Janis Joplin’s album Pearl, the pocket calculator, and Dirty Harry. Now doesn’t that just make your day?
Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wariness in Black community over COVID-19 vaccine
Some time back when I was in my late 40s I had a freelance project that led me to the Tuskegee syphilis study. Chalk this up as one of the things we didn’t learn about in history class.
I sobbed out loud sitting at my computer reading about this research, which studied the effects of the disease in poor Black men. Here’s the worst part: even after drugs were discovered that cured syphilis, the treatment was withheld from study participants so researchers could document the natural progression of the disease.
Today, the repercussions of this ghastly history affect attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination in the Black community.
Please read this article.
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
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