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New drugs for early Alzheimer’s disease may allow people to live without help for up to 39 additional months, a new study estimates. But experts urge caution.

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The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

That number is expected to grow as the population ages and a search for a cure continues.But people suffering from memory ...

Doctors and aging experts say early intervention is key. When dementia is diagnosed early on, there are more treatment and ...

In the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two novel Alzheimer's therapies, based on data from ...

A recent study that examined posts on dementia caregiving found that there was a rise in tweets featuring dementia-related stigmatization especially in North America during and after the COVID-19 ...

Today, as part of a national initiative funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF), the national, independent nonprofit FAIR Health launched a new shared decision-making tool for Alzheimer's ...

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...