Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating condition that affects more than 7 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. As the Baby Boomer generation ages, this number is estimated to grow to 13 million by 2050. However, the U.S. Food and ...

Jimmy Kimmel proved once and for all how easy it was for President Donald Trump to pass the cognitive exam he took at Walter Reed Medical Center. In his Monday night monologue, Kimmel showed a Truth Social post from Trump bragging about having aced his “Cognitive Examination,

In many cases, it's not until memory problems start creeping up that most people learn they have Alzheimer's disease. By then, the disease may already be progressing, leaving limited options for managing the condition. Now, a new diagnostic test reveals ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has given marketing clearance to a blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, making the test the first to get signoff to aid in the early detection of the disease in the United States. The test, called the ...

In an era with less political and cultural division — and less tech-driven diversion — the stunning advances in medicine seen in recent years would get far more attention. The rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020 is one of many examples of ...

The earlier Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed, the better the outcomes; however, it can be hard to diagnose the disease in its earliest stages. The United States Food and Drug Administration recently cleared the first blood test to help diagnose ...

A blood sample analysis can detect markers of this disease at early stages, providing a cheaper and less invasive option for diagnosis. In clinical trials, the Lumipulse blood test was highly accurate at detecting brain plaques tied to Alzheimer’s ...

A new brainwave test could detect early signs of Alzheimer’s years before diagnosis — in just three minutes. That’s according to researchers at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, who recently tested the new technology — called ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who found that signs of brain cell injury begin in early life and rise sharply with age.

Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease has long relied on expensive and invasive procedures, often delaying care until symptoms are well advanced. With the recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of Fujirebio’s Lumipulse G pTau 217/β-Amyloid 1 ...