Two new groundbreaking drugs could slow the memory impairment, thinking skills and overall brain decline — and both are ...

The FDA has accepted an investigational new drug application for an investigational and proprietary combination therapy to ...

You think you’re fine. Your family and friends think you’re fine. But, just maybe, you’re not. Maybe you already have Alzheimer’s disease, but you just don’t know it yet, because it can begin ...

A breakthrough new Alzheimer’s disease treatment is stopping neurodegeneration in its tracks, even before symptoms appear.

Alzheimer's disease affects the brain in tragic and seemingly irreversible ways, but a new study gives hope that its ...

Although he struggles with his memory, Roy Mitchell knows he is glad to be among the first patients in the world to try a new medicine for Alzheimer's disease. The first four people have been enrolled ...

Low cholesterol can reduce the risk of dementia, a new University of Bristol-led study with more than a million participants has shown. The research, led by Dr. Liv Tybjærg Nordestgaard while at the ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

New safety study links sedative use to increased stroke risk. A large UK study involving more than 165,000 people with dementia has found that the drug risperidone increases the risk of stroke in all ...

Prescriptions for the nerve-pain drug have doubled in 15 years as doctors moved away from opioids and benzodiazepines.• ...