The National Institutes of Health has canceled about $15 million in Alzheimer’s research grants at Emory University and the University of Pittsburgh, and every one of the canceled projects was studying why Black Americans develop the disease at higher rates than everyone else. Black Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia. An estimated 7.4 million people in the United States are living with one or the other right now. Th…
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