World AIDS Day History

AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has devastated the lives of approximately 25 million people between the years 1981 and 2007. In fact, in 2007 alone, about 2 million people died due to the disease, and out of these, approximately 270,000 were of children.

Alzheimer Disease History

Although medical history does demonstrate research on the identification and analysis of the gradual decline in a human being’s mental health, this phenomenon was most often associated with old age rather than any specific disease. In the year 1906, a German physician named Dr. Alois Alzheimer conducted a brain autopsy on one of his patient’s whom he was unable to save even after years of treatment.