A growing body of research links insulin resistance, a hallmark of diabetes, to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. A blood test for insulin resistance can help identify people with early Alzheimer’s ...

The FDA recently cleared the Lumipulse blood test for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in people 55 and over with memory loss. The noninvasive Lumipulse blood test measures the levels of two ...

New research reveals memory loss with age follows a curved pattern, linked to widespread brain shrinkage rather than a single ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

The prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease is much better when patients are diagnosed as early as possible. And there’s great news on that front. WTOP talked to two local doctors about an advancement in ...

Elevated cardiac troponin I levels during midlife — indicative of subclinical myocardial injury — were associated with a higher risk for dementia, faster cognitive decline, and greater brain atrophy ...

In 2021, 57 million people across the planet were living with dementia. This class of memory-related diseases is the world’s seventh greatest killer, and Alzheimer’s disease is its most common form.

A new study has found that for people with moderate hearing loss, being prescribed hearing aids had little impact on ...

Researchers believe the test could be a new way to foresee how quickly the disease will progress, but evidence so far is preliminary. A growing body of research links insulin resistance, a hallmark of ...