by Fred and Alice Ottoboni | May 18, 2017 | research
The Opioid Epidemic In December, 2016, Thomas Frieden, MD, Chief of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), reported that in year 2015 the drug overdose death toll in America was the highest on record (1). More than 52,000 people died from a drug...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Mar 19, 2017 | alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s disease is a very large, extremely costly, growing epidemic that affects older individuals. The average per-person Medicaid spending for seniors with Alzheimer disease and other dementias is 19 times higher than the average per-person Medicaid spending...
by Fred and Alice Ottoboni | Aug 10, 2015 | research
Introduction In 1982, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was granted jointly to Sune Bergstrom, Bengt Samuelsson, and Sir John Vane, which, in essence, explained the mechanism for the analgesic effect of aspirin. The Nobel Summary pointed out that prostaglandins and related...
