February isn’t just for Valentines. Also known as Heart Disease Awareness Month, February serves as a reminder to us all to remember our cardiovascular health. Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the United States. On average, someone dies of cardiovascular disease every 36.1 seconds and there are approximately 795,000 new or recurrent …
With May being ALS Awareness Month comes the news of the beginning of testing an investigational treatment for the disease in healthy volunteer participants. NPT520-34 is an investigational small molecule that has shown to reduce levels of brain inflammation markers and central nervous system proteins of animal models of ALS, Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s disease. …
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a month when you undoubtedly see a lot more of the color pink, the awareness color for breast cancer awareness. An organized action that started slowly and modestly back in 1985 has over time flourished to what we see now, the easily-identifiable call for awareness of breast health. …
It’s so encouraging that there is now a World Mental Health Day to raise awareness for mental health issues. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (January 2018), mental health issues affect tens of millions of people each year in the United States alone, while estimates indicate that only half of people with mental …