This installment of our quarterly Trials Update captures the latest developments in Alzheimer’s and other dementia clinical trials, from January 2025 to present. We’ve…
Does Alzheimer’s start with an infection? Thirty years on, biophysicist Ruth Itzhaki’s research linking viruses with Alzheimer’s is finally getting the attention it deserves….
A person who struggles with tasks they’ve been doing for years or asks the same question over and over again may be showing the…
People with Down syndrome have a 9/10 chance of developing early-onset Alzheimer’s — a reality tied to genetics. This genetic condition also makes this…
April 17, 2025 Madeline Bastida is a devoted daughter and Alzheimer’s advocate whose caregiving journey inspires her to support families facing Alzheimer’s to ensure…
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…
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….
Why are researchers still fumbling in the quest to cure what is arguably one of the most important diseases confronting humankind — Alzheimer’s disease?…
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…
If you are like me, one of the thousands of individuals caring for a loved one, then you know how draining and difficult 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….
Can a seemingly harmless virus in the gut wreak havoc on the brain decades after the initial infection? And could catching and treating an…
February 26, 2025 Bethany Wallace is a long-distance, sandwich caregiver to both of her parents, along with her two siblings. Her mother was diagnosed…
In the brains of people with Alzheimer’s diseases, problematic proteins called beta-amyloid build up and clump together in plaques, harming and eventually killing off…