My final report on the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease is a call for cautious interpretation. Researchers from Sweden shared results from a study about marital status in mid-life ... Read More

The 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease continues to turn out interesting reports. Case in point: A study in Scotland indicated that a drug that's been around for years to ... Read More

I was pleased to see that the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease is focusing on quality care issues as well as findings about possible causes and potential treatments for ... Read More

More interesting news came out of the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease today: Researchers at the Mayo Clinic estimate that one million people develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) every ... Read More

The 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) is under way in Chicago. Organized by the Alzheimer's Association, the event has brought together over 5,000 researchers from around the world ... Read More

The University of California - San Francisco and YouTube have teamed up to raise awareness about dementias such as Alzheimer's disease by offering the UCSF Memory and Aging Center Channel. ... Read More

Drs. Edward Tobinick and Hyman Gross have published another study indicating the benefits of perispinal etanercept treatment for Alzheimer's disease. You can read their study here, because they like to ... Read More

Estelle Getty, whose caustic wit made her role as Sophia on the Golden Girls one of the most popular characters in television history, has died at the age of 84. Getty ... Read More

Here's an interesting study that I fear will lead people to erroneously dismiss the benefits of vegetarianism. Researchers at the Universities of Loughborough and Oxford found that among 719 older ... Read More

The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving is seeking applications for its Mattie J. T. Stepanek Caregiving Scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to provide family, professional, and/or paraprofessional caregivers ... Read More

Researchers led by Philippe Marambaud of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have identified a second gene that increases the risk for late-onset Alzheimer's ... Read More

Here's a refreshing idea: Let's try to manage the difficult symptoms of Alzheimer's with natural, nondrug methods. That's what researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience did when they tested the ... Read More

While doctors already have a couple of questionnaires that can help them identify possible Alzheimer's disease, many of these tests only detect problems when the disease has progressed beyond the ... Read More

Do you know your cholesterol levels? If not -- and you're middle-aged -- you might want to see if your HDL (the good kind of cholesterol) is high enough. Researchers from ... Read More