Clearing the Air: Environmental Action Against Parkinson’s
Authored by: Mina Kanburlar Art by: Mia Hsu Parkinson’s disease (PD) is increasingly becoming a major global health issue. From 1990 to 2021, the disability-adjusted life years (total healthy years lost from illness and early death) due to PD per 100,000 people rose from 53.51 to 94.68, nearly doubling [1]. This increase highlights that medical management alone will not suffice; prevention and risk-reduction strategies, known as primary interventions, must be central to efforts aimed at...