HEALTHBEAT: Tracking to keep Alzheimer's patients independent longer, not just find the lost Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his ...
John O'Connor, the husband of retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, died Wednesday in Arizona after a long battle with Alzheimer's ...
Report finds Alzheimer's, dementia afflict more than 35 million worldwide and rising rapidly More than 35 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness ...
Though the word "dementia" is often used as a blanket term for the deterioration of memory and other thought processes, there are in fact several different types of dementia. Experts usually categorize the various disorders by where in the brain they occur. ...
Scientists working in seven countries announced they had uncovered variants of three genes which play a role in Alzheimer's, a discovery that should throw open many new avenues for tackling this tragic, mind-killing disease. The biggest cause of dementia, Alzheimer's has a ...
