Sometime midway through the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it still wasn't clear if vaccines would arrive or even work, I found a page in an old reporting notebook that stopped me cold. According to the CDC's mortality estimates for 2022, COVID is still the fourth leading cause of death in this country after heart disease and cancer. …
A surprising symptom that could be an early warning of Alzheimer’s disease is loss of smell, according to a new study. The new study by researchers at the University of Chicago showed that people who carry the gene variant APOE e4, linked with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease, could lose their sense of smell first, signalling Alzheimer’s disease, according …
