WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University has bee...

A new blood test identifies a key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease, which may help make assessing the presence and stage of the disease mor...

The play “Remembrance” just closed its off-B’way run. Subject? Caregiver for a parent with Alzheimer’s. Assessment: It’s tough.

By now, you’ve likely heard that certain diets and foods can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia and cancer. Some can even reverse biol...

By Lauren Neergaard | The Associated PressA vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one — shots that prevent painful s...

By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang, KFF Health NewsAlanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives wi...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced—without explanation—that it would not proceed with a proposal initiated by...

(NEXSTAR) — A third person in the remote California town of Mammoth Lakes has died of hantavirus, the sometimes-fatal illness that authoriti...

WASHINGTON: An American neurologist and an Italian epidemiologist whose work revolutionized the treatment of multiple sclerosis on Saturday...

A Bay Area researcher on Saturday received science’s equivalent of a Hollywood Oscar for a surprising, transformative discovery about multip...

Nada Hassanein, Stateline.orgWhen Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doc...

Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson recently shared a health update on his parents, Phil, 78, and Kay, 77—and he didn't sugarcoat his blunt ass...

Researchers protested the cuts at Columbia University last week. A government document details the numerous research projects on the cho...

If your doctor told you that a vaccine against dementia was available, would you be interested? According to a study published April 2 in th...

Getting vaccinated for the viral illness shingles, which causes a painful rash, could potentially be the next best tool in preventing dement...