To Lower Your Dementia Risk, Experts Recommend Looking After Your Teeth
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Emily Woodruff
| October 10th, 2018
Your teeth and your brain are both housed in your head, but what does oral care have to do with the health of your…
Eliminating ‘Zombie’ Brain Cells Could Prevent Alzheimer’s
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Emily Woodruff
| September 19th, 2018
Inside your brain, there are 100 billion cells carrying out the daily tasks of keeping you alive and feeding you information: transmitting messages from…
Scientists Link Smoking to Increased Dementia Risk
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Emily Woodruff
| September 13th, 2018
Without a cure or treatment that stops the progression of Alzheimer’s or dementia, prevention is the best bet for warding off the disease. Scientists…
What to Expect From Joining a Clinical Trial for Alzheimer’s
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William Burke
| September 6th, 2018
For scientists searching to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, clinical trials are essential. Testing the drugs that have been decades in the making is…
Test Predicts Who Is Most Likely to Get Alzheimer’s—And When They’ll Get It
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Emily Woodruff
| September 4th, 2018
Dementia has a silent beginning, according to most scientists. The changes in the brain that lead to diseases like Alzheimer’s begin decades before symptoms…
Living Alone With Dementia: For Some, It Leads to Homelessness
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Christine Barba
| August 6th, 2018
When Heather Oglesby pulled up to a homeless shelter in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she found her mother, Patricia, standing on the back steps. “She weighed…
One Day There Will Be a Treatment for Alzheimer’s. Until Then, Follow This Advice
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Christine Barba
| August 2nd, 2018
A routine physical at the doctor’s office includes checking your heart rate and blood pressure, but what if you could also get a measure…
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