What You Need to Know about Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s is a common neurological illness caused by the degeneration or breaking down of cells in the nervous system. It is estimated that it affects 1 percent of the population over age 60, with a small percentage of people (around 4 percent), diagnosed by age 50. Overall, as many as 1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s,…

The Cytokine Storm

  Maybe you had never heard about it or so much about it until now. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the term cytokine storm into the forefront of information.   What is a cytokine storm?   The term describes an overreaction of the body’s immune system in which it releases immune messengers, called cytokines, into…