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Dr. Marty Levine explains more about the disease and the support that's available for patients. Sponsored by Optum Care Washington.

Medications like donanemab (Kisunla) and lecanemab (Leqembi) target amyloid plaques that build up in the brain due to Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer’s is an insidious disease, one that robs a person of their faculties slowly, erases pieces of them over time. It’s a disease that works slowly—until it works suddenly, when a ...

Still, there are trade-offs. “Adherence challenges exist with oral Alzheimer's medications as patients can forget to take their medications,” Reichelt adds.

Newly diagnosed Alzheimer's dementia was defined based on codes for at least one prescription for the anti-dementia medications donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine, or memantine.

The Food and Drug Administration cleared a new kind of test for Alzheimer’s disease designed to be more accessible and less risky for patients with cognitive decline.

But now, a new study offers something rare in Alzheimer's, a reason for hope. A once-daily pill called blarcamesine (pronounced blar-CAM-uh-seen) may actually slow the disease’s grip. And it ...