In July 2024, European regulators rejected Eisai and Biogen’s anti-amyloid drug Leqembi for early stage Alzheimer’s. By November, they had changed their minds. Now, the…
Your genetics could make you more vulnerable to the side effects of the new class of Alzheimer’s drugs. Carrying two copies of the ApoE4…
When ancient Greek soldiers laid their mythical siege upon the city of Troy, they struggled to break through the city’s impenetrable walls. To finally…
Years before any symptoms of Alzheimer’s appear, beta-amyloid and tau proteins misfold, tangle, and aggregate inside the brain. While many people may develop beta-amyloid…
Treatment with a powerful magnet is one of the newest experimental therapies being used to try to turn back the clock on Alzheimer’s disease….
Before Americans become eligible for Medicare at 65, they often rely on private insurance. But for people who start showing signs of Alzheimer’s in…
Loneliness, heart disease, diabetes, and mental health conditions all put older Americans at a higher risk of developing cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Looking…
Anti-amyloid drugs like Leqembi and Kisunla are on the market for treating early Alzheimer’s disease, but they are expensive, difficult to access, and only…
In November of last year, Cassava Sciences announced their experimental Alzheimer’s drug simufilam failed to slow cognitive or functional decline in its 52-week Phase…
European regulators rejected Lilly’s Kisunla citing the number of ARIA-related deaths in its Phase 3 trial. The company will look to appeal the decision….
After a hack exposed the data of millions of its customers, the at-home genetic testing giant 23andMe has gone bankrupt and will be selling…
Decades after the 1918 flu pandemic, epidemiologists discovered that survivors were up to three times as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. This wasn’t a…
Women were historically excluded from medical research. The move was originally intended to keep them safe — but in a way, it did the…
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2019, researchers raised concerns it would increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. A recent…
There’s a hereditary typo in Doug Whitney’s genetic code: a variant that all but guarantees its carriers will contract Alzheimer’s disease within their lifetime….