The long search for a drug to slow the decline of Alzheimer’s may have reached a turning point. Pharmaceutical companies Biogen and Eisai have…
Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked on the front lines of disasters…
We talk to Dr. Nir Lipsman, a neurosurgeon at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC 2018) about how…
We know that as much as 50 percent of dementia patients experience regular pain. But does providing a common painkiller help or hurt patients?…
We talk to Rudy Tanzi, professor of neurology at Harvard University and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital…
Giving birth to five or more children may raise the risk of Alzheimer’s by as much as 70 percent, a new study has found….
I know a care partner who wrote a one-page life story of her husband that she could share with professionals at each transition: likes, dislikes, former occupation, noteworthy accomplishments—information that would typically not be found in the medical record.
“Imagine a world where diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease is as simple as getting your blood tested during your annual physical,” Bill Gates wrote in a…
Dr. Daniel C. Potts is a neurologist sharing what patients and care partners should know about navigating the healthcare system after watching his father…
When you close your eyes and go to your “happy place,” does it involve the great outdoors? If so, there may be a good…
Vicki Bartholomew started a support group for wives who are caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s disease because she needed that sort of group…
We talk to Daniela Kaufer, from the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, about the effects of chronic stress on…
After years of failure, including some pharmaceutical companies calling off Alzheimer’s research altogether, Biogen offers a glimmer of hope: New data from a Phase…
We talk to Dr. Martha Clare Morris, who developed the MIND diet, about how diet may help prevent Alzheimer’s. 1:07: The MIND diet studies’…
‘Skinny fat’ is a term used to describe someone who is a relatively small size, but has low muscle tone. Some people might call…