By now, many of you may have heard of generative AI – powerful algorithms that use artificial intelligence to create content. Many companies today…
There are different modalities of drugs, delivered in different formats, that work in different ways. One type of drug you may encounter often is…
Open your medicine cabinet, and you’ll see many examples of the most common type of medication on the market: Small molecule drugs such as…
When Doreen Monks first started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, she was working as a neuroscience nurse practitioner. While she was having problems managing…
According to the 2020 Lancet Commission report, the number of people living with dementia worldwide will almost triple in the coming decades, from 57…
An article published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer’s disease can…
Intermittent fasting has become a popular dietary approach to help people lose or manage their weight. It has also been promoted as a way…
The way we should talk about dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases — the terminology we use — can be confusing. We might find ourselves…
TauRx’s experimental drug HMTM is designed to target tau protein, an Alzheimer’s biomarker protein that causes tangles to muck up the works in the…
Age remains the chief predictor of Alzheimer’s, and as the world’s population skews older, dementia rates are rising: Globally, cases are expected to triple…
It’s an exciting time for Alzheimer’s research, according to Madhav Thambisetty, senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging. “We’ve known for years that…
A friend of mine, who contracted COVID-19 over a year ago, recently told me that he is still struggling with brain fog and complete…
The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s, is a progressive, life limiting, neurodegenerative condition, which damages and destroys parts of the nervous system, especially…
From the crispy crunch of fresh veggies to the creamy indulgence of decadent desserts, we all have different food preferences. Our palates develop uniquely,…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine particulate air pollution, known as PM2.5 because the…