Fort Worth medical school investing $7M to study Alzheimer's disproportionate effect on African Americans
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is making a multimillion-dollar investment.
FORT WORTH, Texas - The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is making a multimillion-dollar investment.
The medical school is adding a thousand African American North Texans to its study on Alzheimer's disease.
Noticeable changes with Racine Collins of Fort Worth started happening in 2007. Her daughter Delisa Cooper recalls a trip they were planning. Collins was supposed to visit her in Arizona.
“I planned it,” Collins said. “I was getting ready to buy the ticket and all of a sudden she was like, ‘What are you talking about? I never said that.’ That was 2007.”