Research supporting the amyloid hypothesis—the idea that Alzheimer's is caused by a buildup of amyloid plaques in the ...

A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

Readers worry that fraud may tarnish the field and slow the race for a cure. Also: Charles Blow’s farewell; treatment for ...

Cure Alzheimer's Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing research with the highest potential to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimer's disease, announced today that Mary Greenhill Cagliero ...

Alzheimer’s is a mind-body malaise that experts say can take up to 20 years to run its fearsome course—like having a sliver ...

Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 30 million people worldwide, mostly the elderly. After the age of 65, the chance of developing it doubles every five years. By 85, the odds are one in three.

This led them to the conclusion that antibiotics, antivirals and anti-inflammatory drugs were all associated with reduced ...

Matt Price drove his 73-year-old father Stephen from their New Jersey home to a medical strip mall on the Jersey Shore, for his first injection of an experimental drug called ...

There’s currently no cure for dementia. Although some recently developed drugs show promise in slowing the progress of the ...

The researchers theorise the protective effects of these drugs could be because they reduce inflammation, control infections ...

This is the year to be optimistic about Alzheimer’s disease says one of Australia’s leading dementia researchers.