Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how Alzheimer’s disease develops, and a decades-old drug could be the ...

The drug would need to be taken long before symptoms first appear—but it could be used to help protect at-risk individuals.

Scientists discover aloe vera compound could offer breakthrough Alzheimer's treatment. Beta sitosterol shows promising results in computer simulations.

A mathematical model simulated patient outcomes when given caregiver support or an expensive Alzheimer’s drug to determine cost and health benefits.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There had been early clues, but it was a family game of dominoes around Christmas 2021 that convinced Susan Stewart that something ...

Scientists have found that the anti-seizure medication levetiracetam prevents the buildup of faulty amyloid-beta proteins in the brain, which could help prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Hamada-Kelley is the executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association San Diego-Imperial Chapter and lives in Carlsbad. In California, more than 690,000 people are living with Alzheimer’s disease — ...

A new diagnostic test developed by Indianapolis medical giants can help identify or rule out Alzheimer’s in patients with ...

By far the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease is a variant of apolipoprotein E, or ApoE. People who carry ...

While physicians and scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease involves the buildup of toxic protein fragments in ...

Diagnosing Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative disease, is complicated and costly. A study in RI could help speed up the process ...