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Being that this month, November, is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, it only seems to fitting to talk about a recent breakthrough that is trying to fight against the disease. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes memory loss in people that are affected. The majority of those that are affected are 65 years old and greater, and the disease only gets worse in the years after the disease develops (Alzheimer’s Association). This is a disease that affects many people with 5.4 million people diagnosed in America. One recent finding, from Dr. Karen Ashe at the University of Minnesota, has provided results that reversed memory loss in mice. Read More

It’s your first day of work tomorrow. Your throat starts feeling a little scratchy, but you can’t be sick for your first day! You go into your medicine cabinet and starting taking everything that says it will take care of a sore throat. But wait! This is not what you should do, and this is what is leading to bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant. Read More