While the hospice program was originally designed for patients with cancer, who are expected to die within six months, currently close to half of older…
In work presented at the 2022 EULAR Congress, Dr. Jens Kristian Pedersen and colleagues used data from the DANBIO registry to describe the all-cause mortality…
Increasingly severe cognitive, behavioral, or motor symptoms due to the dysfunction and death of the brain’s nerve cells are the hallmarks of the diseases that…
Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer’s disease, a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and…
An elevator encounter that happened to Laurie Waters highlights the daily plight faced by early-onset Alzheimer’s patients like her.
In a new study of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that a relatively unstudied form of the tau protein associated with…
An experimental drug restored brain synapses in two mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, raising hopes that it could help revive cognitive function in human dementia…
A breakdown in how brain cells rid themselves of waste precedes the buildup of debris-filled plaques known to occur in Alzheimer’s disease, a new study…
Scientists have long known that proteins can form harmful clusters in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But a…
The APOE4 gene is the most powerful genetic factor driving a person’s risk for developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.