The National Institutes of Health shared research from a team led by Drs. Michael Fang at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Josef Coresh at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. It shows that new dementia cases in this country may double from about 514,000 in 2020 to 1 million in 2060. […]
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