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Wisconsin universities, hospitals and health organizations signed a letter urging the state's congressional delegation to ...

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By Andrew Hay SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) -Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and ...

Rather than seeking a single cure — a magic bullet — for Alzheimer’s disease, a shotgun blast of different drugs with ...

It's hard to trust the disease statistics when cognitive tests often are not completed, write Robert Brownell and Dr. Yogesh ...

My mother died of the stress of Alzheimer's caregiving. A decade into caring for my father — and hiding his diagnosis from their friends — she dropped dead of a stress-induced brain aneurysm. Her ...

MRI findings uncover an unexpected mismatch between Alzheimer’s pathology and cognitive function in a unique case study.

The brain of a US woman with Down syndrome showed the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease upon her death, yet she remained ...

Researchers analyzed the brain of a woman with down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease, and were shocked to discover that ...

"Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to ...