Betty Pettit was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 11 years ago Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Alzheimer’s early detection is now more accessible with blood tests, as survey data shows nearly 80% of Americans want to know their risk before symptoms appear.

The hope for early detection of Alzheimer's disease 05:17. This week, Sharyn Alfonsi and a 60 Minutes team met Dr. Ali Rezai, a pioneer in what could be a revolutionary new approach to treating ...

An experimental drug has shown promise in preventing Alzheimer’s for people at higher risk of developing the disease. That’s according to a new study from Washington University School of ...

Brain therapies for Alzheimer’s – rTMS and DBS – can slow down the disease. Find out how they work.

Blood tests that can detect 90% of Alzheimer’s cases could revolutionize access to Alzheimer’s treatment, studies say.

This new AI Alzheimer’s detection model was trained on the transcribed speech of 166 older adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition that often precedes Alzheimer’s.

Of course, not every case of Alzheimer’s will respond the same way. The study was relatively small, and most participants had sporadic (non-genetic) Alzheimer’s, which is more likely to be ...

A new report suggests up to 7.2 million Americans ages 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease, an increase of about 300,000 cases of the mind-robbing disease from a year ago.. The ...

One couple is helping scientists find out : Shots - Health News Joe Walsh is the first Alzheimer's patient to be treated with an experimental nasal spray designed to reduce inflammation in the brain.

Alzheimer's disease pathology was common in people diagnosed with other dementias, a large cross-sectional study in Sweden showed. While most patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's had ...