Autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis, are complex diseases that affect over four million people in the United States and cost the healthcare system over $90 billion [read more...]
According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), two Harvard economists estimate the cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic at more than $16 trillion. To put this number into perspective, that’s approximately 90% of annual GDP of the United States or $200,000 for a family of four. This is a combination of lost income due to the COVID-induced recession and the economic effect of a shorter, less healthy life.
Just as national health officials warned ahead of the holiday season, the winter months of 2020-21 have proven to be the most challenging period of the COVID-19 pandemic so far. In Tennessee alone, there have [read more...]
Although COVID-19 hospitalizations and death rates have dominated the media, another challenge has quietly emerged during the pandemic. Some COVID patients are reporting a wide variety of debilitating symptoms, often lasting months after being diagnosed. [read more...]
Everyone knows at least one person with an autoimmune disease or disorder and just may not know it. Even if you think you don’t, you most likely do, considering autoimmune diseases affect approximately 50 million [read more...]
