Dr. Carl V. Hill
COVID-19 has laid bare some undesirable truths: underserved communities are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. In the field of Alzheimer’s and dementia, statistics point to a similarly troubling trend.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, for instance, African Americans are about twice as likely as whites to have Alzheimer’s or another dementia and Hispanics are 1.5 times more likely to have Alzheimer’s. Additionally, African Americans are more prone to risk factors for vascular disease like diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol which may also be risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and stroke-related dementia.
MDVIP Expands In Michigan With Five Primary Care Physicians Drs. Susan Baker, Bruce M. Baker, Paul R. Ehrmann, A.J. Ronan, and Patricia J. Roy Open MDVIP-Affiliated Practices to Deliver Personalized, Preventive Medicine Across the Lower Peninsula
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MDVIP, the market leader in personalized healthcare with over 1,000 physicians nationwide, announced the opening of five new affiliated primary care practices in Michigan. Family medicine physicians Susan Baker, D.O. and Bruce M. Baker, D.O. (Grand Rapids), Paul R. Ehrmann, D.O. (Royal Oak/Detroit), A.J. Ronan, D.O. (Okemos/Lansing) and Patricia J. Roy, D.O. (Muskegon) have joined the MDVIP primary care network to deliver a better healthcare experience with an emphasis on wellness and prevention. With the addition of these five affiliates, MDVIP s network footprint has grown to over 30 primary care physicians in Michigan.
Feb 16, 2021
ESCANABA The regular “Your Health Lecture Series” sponsored by Bay College and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine continues at 6 tonight. This month’s lecture features a talk by Dr. Lisa Lowery titled “Face it to address it: Health disparities, social injustice and health care.”
The presentation is free and open to the public. To register for the webinar offered via Zoom, visit the MSU webinar registration page at http://bit.l/3qfkWnB
Lowery will offer “an informative conversation about health care and social injustice,” a program announcement states. “Participants will learn about how inequities impact one’s health, microaggressions and impact on healthcare, addressing unconscious bias, and how to use a DEI Lens to impact healthcare.”
Need an expert for American Heart Month?
February is American Heart Month, a time to highlight the top cause of death in Americans: heart disease. This year, the American Heart Association is highlighting the “Don’t Die of Doubt” awareness campaign, which focuses on reminding people that, even during the pandemic, hospitals are the safest place to go when symptoms of heart disease crop up.
Included is a list of researchers with expertise on a variety of topics related to heart health, heart medicine research and more. For more experts, contact Zach Richardson, MSU public relations manager, at richa954@msu.edu.
What does bile acid production in the digestive tract have to do with Parkinson’s disease? Quite a lot, according to a study published in
The findings reveal that changes in the gut microbiome may in turn alter bile acid production by favoring synthesis of toxic forms of the acids.
These shifts were seen only in people with Parkinson’s and not in healthy controls, a critical difference that suggests bile acids may be a viable biomarker for diagnosing Parkinson’s early and tracking its progression. The insights also may provide new avenues for developing therapies that impede Parkinson’s-related changes in the gut, thereby potentially slowing or stopping disease onset and progression, a media release from Van Andel Research Institute explains.