For the first time, therapeutically effective medications are now available for Alzheimer's disease. Effective symptomatic ...

She began showing signs of memory loss in her early 50s, but it took more than two years and countless tests before she was ...

David and Maureen said they had no concept of what was going on while waiting for Maureen's dementia diagnosis. A Kent woman ...

The idea is straightforward: Take a blood test now, even without symptoms, and learn if you could some day develop Alzheimer’s disease. Whether you should get this test is a more complicated matter.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder which slowly destroys memory and cognitive skills, eventually affecting the ability to perform ...

A new wave of blood tests aiming to predict Alzheimer’s risk may offer hope for earlier detection — but they could also raise concerns about the accuracy and reliability of the results. A recent study ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. The FDA recently cleared, for the first time ...

Younger brain age may help protect memory despite early Alzheimer’s-related protein changes, according to a new study.

The U.S. FDA recently approved a new blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. The test, called Lumipulse, measures two proteins in plasma: pTau217 and ß-Amyloid 1-42. These proteins clump together ...

Early detection of Alzheimer's disease through tau protein blood tests could delay dementia, but Medicare coverage policies ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...