Everyday People Matter
May is National Arthritis Awareness Month. More than 50 million Americans suffer from arthritis. Did you know that there are several dozen different types of arthritis? Here are some more common, but surprising, facts about arthritis: There are more than 100 types of...
Most people who think of asthma think of this as a childhood condition that results in occasional wheezing. However, for many patients, asthma continues well into adulthood, and can severely impact their ability to lead normal lives. As many as one in 13 people in...
Long Covid, the baffling condition in which Covid survivors continue to suffer the effects of the virus in their immune system for months after the initial viral infection, is still not well understood. More than a year after the start of the pandemic, we are still...
Persons who suffer from cystic fibrosis often suffer from depleted vitamin D levels. To correct this, they take supplements. However, common prescription errors can lead to vitamin D toxicity in these patients. Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary condition that...
Huntington’s disease is an incurable genetic condition that can lead to serious mental disability. Finding a cure for this condition has been a focus for researchers, but recently those efforts met with devastating failure. Pharmaceutical companies Roche and Wave Life...
Persons who suffer from personality traits that are specifically linked to neuroticism, may be at a higher risk of suffering from Parkinson’s disease. According to the results of a recent study, individuals who exhibit characteristics closer to neuroticism on the...
New federal legislation from December 2020 provides great relief for patients who suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The law waives off the 5 -month mandatory waiting period for persons to begin receiving Social...
A new study finds that Gen-Xers and millennials are much more likely to suffer from physical and mental conditions that result in disability compared to previous generations at the same age. According to the study, Gen-Xers and millennials fare poorly on a number of...
Black Americans have a risk of suffering a stroke that is as much as four times higher than white Americans. The new study finds that the risk of stroke increases significantly for Black Americans once they reach the age of 40. The primary cause of this is an increase...
Even during the best of times, the Social Security Administration faced challenges in its processing timelines. SSA has always had a backlog causing delays in the approval of claims and delivering of payments to beneficiaries. However, that situation has become...