The Saudi royal family has started a not-for-profit organization called the Hevolution Foundation that plans to spend up to $1 billion a year of its oil wealth supporting basic research on the biology of aging and finding ways to extend the number of years people live in good health, a […]
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Homeless Americans Are Costing Us Millions Each Year. Street Medicine Would Help
On a recent night this winter, I stood under Chicago’s Dan Ryan Expressway and watched my coworker examine a foot abscess the size of a golf ball. The patient shivered in pain. “I just kept ignoring it for weeks ’cause I thought it’d go away,” he said. We were a […]
New Chicago clinic will offer free dental care to 2,500 Illinois residents a year
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Low-income Illinois residents will soon be able to receive free dental care at a new 25,000-square-foot clinic being opened in Chicago’s Fulton Market district this summer by The Aspen Group, which operates dental and medical clinics across the country and recently moved its headquarters to Chicago. […]