FDA clears 1st blood test for Alzheimer’s to help primary care clinicians assess cognitive decline without brain scans or lumbar punctures.

Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, announced today the nationwide availability of the Elecsys® pTau-181 test, the first and only blood test ...

Carole Rainey, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, started to notice something wasn’t quite right with her husband, Bill, when he began to ramble in a way that was unlike him. He had ...

Studies have found that poor grip strength was associated with a greater risk of cognitive decline and developing conditions such as dementia. Whilst this at-home test cannot definitely lead to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michael Sandberg, whose mother had Alzheimer's disease, took part in the trial [BBC] An international trial is examining ...

Imagine diagnosing one of the most challenging neurological diseases with just a quick finger-prick, a few drops of blood and ...

After witnessing my father’s tortuous battle with the illness I wanted to understand my own risk, so I visited a brain expert ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...

A long-term study of older adults with moderate hearing loss found that hearing aids did not lead to better performance on ...