Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered that insulin nasal spray may improve cognitive function in obese and pre-diabetic adolescents, supporting previous…
As a teenager, I would visit my grandmother over the summer and she was always the life of the party. She introduced me to…
A potent group of antipsychotic drugs used to treat delirium and dementia are not effective, according to a study published in the New England…
A report by the AARP has found that most dementia patients—around 70 percent—are kept on prescription drugs much longer than they’ve been found to be…
Any Alzheimer’s drug under development has a complicated journey from formulation to clinical trials to potentially getting in the hands of patients. We spoke…
Experimental drugs for Alzheimer’s disease have a 99.6 percent failure rate. Not such a great track record. But, according to an expert in the…
While there is currently no treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, a drug called Aricept can temporarily ease the symptoms for a short period of time….
Nursing homes in the U.S. are inappropriately prescribing antipsychotic drugs to an estimated 179,000 patients per week, according to a 157-page report by the…
Scientists have finally cracked the code of how an experimental new drug called J147, which has a proven track record of reversing Alzheimer’s disease…
It hasn’t been a good week for Alzheimer’s drug development. Pfizer, one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, announced that they would abandon the…
Pfizer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, has decided to halt any further development of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s drugs, the company announced on…
We know that the changes that happen to the brain in diabetes look similar to those that happen in Alzheimer’s. In fact, people with…
One of the things that makes Alzheimer’s disease so hard to treat is that scientists still don’t understand the basic biology behind what’s driving…