Alzheimer's Disease

Julianne Moore certainly earned her Golden Globe, SAG and Academy Award nominations for her heart-wrenching portrayal of Alice Howland, a woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50 in the blockbuster Still Alice. The film follows Alice’s mental decline while educating the general public on a very rare form of the condition that […]

Health researchers believe they may have found an important cause of Alzheimer’s Disease. The hope is that such a discovery will help medical professionals develop new and more effective methods for treating the devastating illness. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, recently identified a defect in a brain signaling pathway that they believe […]

Health researchers have discovered a new way of detecting Alzheimer’s Disease. According to these experts, early detection can start by a patient’s ability to recognize familiar smells. That’s the finding of Harvard researchers who recently presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Harvard researchers studied 215 health participants by asking […]

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association says that women aged 60 or older have a one in six chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The report also notes that women in that age group are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s than breast cancer. The report highlights the role age plays in the development of […]

Researchers say they’ve developed a new blood test that will allow them to detect the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the finding of scientists based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. They based their research, which took place over a five-year period, on blood samples of more than five hundred people aged 70 or […]

There are currently over 400 trials of new Alzheimer’s medications. Hopefully new treatments will be available soon. Until then, prevention is one of the best options. Here are 12 easy ways to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.