A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

We’re all ears for promising developments in staving off Alzheimer’s. Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and accounts for more than 100,000 deaths each year, with a startling NYU ...

Now it turns out the shingles vaccine may have an added benefit: reducing the risk of dementia, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. It’s a welcome discovery for people who ...

Now a team of Canadian researchers has added another warning to partaking too vigorously in cannabis: dementia. In reaching their conclusions, scientists from institutes across Canada looked at a ...

Researchers are sounding the alarm about the link between weed and dementia. A new study found people who visit the hospital for cannabis-related problems are up to 72 percent more likely than ...

Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause. By Roni Caryn Rabin Middle-aged and ...

Drinking eight glasses of wine or pints of beer a week or more can dramatically increase your chances of developing memory-robbing dementia, a new study has suggested. Brazilian researchers ...

A new study from the University of Otago suggests that looking into your eyes might one day help doctors spot signs of dementia long before memory loss begins. The study was co-lead by author and ...

Overall, glucose-lowering therapy was not significantly associated with a reduction in all-cause dementia or cognitive impairment. Treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP ...

Image credit: mbbirdy/Getty Images. A new study investigates the relationship between specific diabetes drugs and dementia. They used data from more than 92,000 people with type 2 diabetes.

Scientists have known about a link between poor sleep and an increased risk of dementia for decades. Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York, says that ...