Alzheimer's

New Alzheimer’s drug recommendation offers hope patients and families CTV News London00:17
Woman who died by euthanasia a year after early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis shared her first… LADbible10:39
Experimental Alzheimer's treatment restores two hours of sleep when tested in mice ScienceAlert21:09
Depression may change a key memory area of the brain Knowridge Science Report19:00
Dementia and Alzheimer's update as breakthrough could lead to important discoveries Somerset Live16:29
Woman with Alzheimer’s ‘regains mobility after magic mushrooms’ The Independent11:28
Dementia after age 90 Newswise (Press Release)16:14

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In the last 2 hours

Beacon Hill Roll Call, Aug. 3-7 Daily Hampshire Gazette17:29

In the last 4 hours

Child Dies in Gene-Editing Trial; Wegovy & Dementia Score; RFK Jr. Questions Journal Medpage Today15:54

Real-World Performance Of Alzheimer's Drug Matches Trial Data, Study Finds HealthDay15:13

In the last 6 hours

Does Obstructive Sleep Apnea Increase Dementia Risk? Sleep Wake Advisor14:52

The Fresh Market Surpasses Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month Fundraising Goal Business Wire (Press Release)14:37

Alzheimer’s Society reminds people to check on people with dementia as amber heat alerts issued across the UK Your Harlow14:07

Scientists Uncover Cellular Mechanism Driving Both Rare Childhood Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease UC San Diego News Center14:01

Gordon Ramsay post-gym habit that could lower Alzheimer's risk Daily Record13:09

In the last 8 hours

New multi-protein blood test accurately detects late-stage Alzheimer's disease News-Medical.Net12:59

Comprehensive brain cell map opens new avenues for Alzheimer's therapies News-Medical.Net12:18

A New Way to Spot Lewy Body Disease Years Before Symptoms Knowridge Science Report12:04

Could Used Coffee Grounds Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Knowridge Science Report12:04

Earlier today

Unprecedented Study of Brain Immune Cells Reveals New Clues to Alzheimer's Disease Progression Newswise (Press Release)10:07

One cognitive ability stood out in a study of Western diets and Alzheimer’s risk genes News-Medical.Net06:23

Semaglutide slows blood protein signature linked to future dementia risk News-Medical.Net04:21

New Alzheimer’s drug recommendation offers hope patients and families CTV News London00:17

Yesterday

Universities of Wisconsin propose $90M plan to train 35,000 health care professionals WSAW23:07 10-Aug-26

Why Taxi Drivers Are Protected Against Alzheimer's NewsMax18:10 10-Aug-26

Today’s events for Aug. 11 Aiken Standard, South Carolina18:09 10-Aug-26

This Nighttime Habit Could Be A Key Indicator Of Dementia. Neurologists Explain The Warning… Women's Health17:49 10-Aug-26

Special Council Meeting For FTD Bros To Be Livestreamed Redditch Borough Council15:26 10-Aug-26

Sugar Restriction in First 1,000 Days From Conception Linked to Lower Risk for Dementia Psychiatry Advisor15:14 10-Aug-26

UTA Signs ‘Tangles’ Director & Giant Ant Founder Leah Nelson Deadline Hollywood15:10 10-Aug-26

MSP calls for better dementia care following visit to East Lothian dementia café Midlothian View14:26 10-Aug-26

Why Hospitals Can Make Dementia Worse Knowridge Science Report14:08 10-Aug-26

Alzheimer's patients 'not changing brain health behaviours' pharmaphorum13:13 10-Aug-26

Quanterix Releases Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2026 Business Wire (Press Release)13:05 10-Aug-26

Alzheimer’s: novel 3D brain tissue model Newswise (Press Release)12:48 10-Aug-26

This 1 Common Behavior In Midlife May Shrink Your Brain HuffPost (US)12:15 10-Aug-26

Broward County Is Treating 60 Florida Patients for Alzheimer’s With a Drug That Actually Works… Live Insurance News12:11 10-Aug-26

Heart Problems Linked To Brain Shrinkage Among People With Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's HealthDay11:16 10-Aug-26

Woman who died by euthanasia a year after early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis shared her first… LADbible10:39 10-Aug-26

AI Maps Local Brain Aging To Reveal Early Signs of Dementia Technology Networks09:30 10-Aug-26

Doing this regularly may reduce dementia risk – and it's easier in midlife North Wales Live07:02 10-Aug-26

Care home raises more than £1,000 for cause with month-long challenge Dorset Echo05:05 10-Aug-26

Ensuring access to Tau-Targeting therapies for Mapt frontotemporal dementia: patient community priorities for… Nature.com03:57 10-Aug-26

Could Sleeping Too Long Signal Alzheimer’s Risk? Knowridge Science Report03:06 10-Aug-26

How well does your country approach Alzheimer’s support? New tool reveals all South China Morning Post00:16 10-Aug-26

In the last 7 days

Experimental Alzheimer's Treatment Restores Two Hours of Sleep When Tested in Mice ScienceAlert21:09 9-Aug-26

Today’s events for Aug. 10 Aiken Standard, South Carolina18:13 9-Aug-26

Why do taxi drivers suffer low rates of late-life dementia? Mind Matters15:43 9-Aug-26

Top expert reveals how to tell if your 'brain farts' are early signs of dementia - or just… MailOnline14:06 9-Aug-26

The exercise habit that could help lower Alzheimer’s and dementia risk Indian Express12:34 9-Aug-26

Care worker’s skydive raises £500 for Alzheimer’s Society This is Oxfordshire05:06 9-Aug-26

Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer’s—How Complex Mental Maps and Spatial Reasoning Protect… Organic Consumers Association04:12 9-Aug-26

Atomic view of Alzheimer's disease peptide could inform new drugs Phys.org22:07 8-Aug-26

Trump’s viral hairdo makes him look like Christmas character, says kin The Independent19:02 8-Aug-26

Depression May Change a Key Memory Area of the Brain Knowridge Science Report19:00 8-Aug-26

Today’s events for Aug. 9 Aiken Standard, South Carolina18:07 8-Aug-26

Important dementia update as scientists now have first 'complete baseline' of its kind Teesside Live16:34 8-Aug-26

Dementia and Alzheimer's update as breakthrough could lead to important discoveries Somerset Live16:29 8-Aug-26

Experts reveal the 35-cent sleep-boosting vitamin that slashes dementia risk MailOnline16:03 8-Aug-26

Andy Burnham breaks down in tears revealing how his Alzheimer's-hit father still doesn't… MailOnline10:24 8-Aug-26

Pitt-CMU collaboration reveals novel Alzheimer’s chromosome changes The Sentinel, Pennsylvania06:14 8-Aug-26

Plasma p-tau217 as a two-cutoff approach to improve tau-pet screening and trial recruitment in Alzheimer’s disease Nature.com05:16 8-Aug-26

Real-World Study Provides New Insights into Safety of New Alzheimer’s Drug Newswise (Press Release)21:01 7-Aug-26

Depression Linked to Shrinking Brain Region in Older Adults Nautilus19:14 7-Aug-26

Celebrity photographer shares his Alzheimer’s journey on Hilton Head Island WTOC19:11 7-Aug-26

Biogen, Investors Reach Settlement Outline Over Alzheimer’s Drug Bloomberg Law17:31 7-Aug-26

Renew Biotechnologies Publishes Peer-Reviewed Research Advancing Cell-Type-Associated… PR Newswire (Press Release)16:03 7-Aug-26

Lambeg’s Phantom Crocheter thanks the local community charity support Northern Ireland World15:49 7-Aug-26

Unlocking The Potential Of Ultrasound In CNS Drug Delivery Forbes14:33 7-Aug-26

Is the biotech capital of the world moving? STAT13:55 7-Aug-26

The careers with the lowest alzheimer’s death rates revealed The Independent13:54 7-Aug-26

Woman, 49, who died by euthanasia shares ‘terrifying’ moment she knew ‘it was her time’ before… LADbible13:38 7-Aug-26

How Body Fat Could Influence Alzheimer’s Disease Knowridge Science Report11:05 7-Aug-26

Mikael Wiehe to publish autobiography after Alzheimer’s diagnosis Sweden Herald07:44 7-Aug-26

Disrupted RNA methylation pathway accelerates Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s risks News-Medical.Net06:40 7-Aug-26

Vanderbilt Will Build an AI Agent into Medical Records to Cut the Wait for Alzheimer's Infusions Medical Daily02:50 7-Aug-26

Prothena Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Highlights Business Wire (Press Release)21:06 6-Aug-26

Cerepeut's Lead Compound Shows How a Little-Known Mitochondrial Mechanism Fuels… Business Wire (Press Release)20:25 6-Aug-26

‘One piece of this puzzle’: Pitt-CMU collaboration makes novel discovery about Alzheimer’s disease Pittsburgh Post-Gazette17:05 6-Aug-26

New research center set to explore treatments for Alzheimer’s Newswise (Press Release)16:14 6-Aug-26

STAT Plus: Study reveals new role for tau, a top target for Alzheimer’s drug development STAT16:03 6-Aug-26

Early signs of dementia that can affect people in their 30s and 40s when talking The Mirror15:46 6-Aug-26

Alzheimer’s disease-linked Flemish App mutation defines a distinct amyloid-β fold Nature.com15:35 6-Aug-26

The Next Billion-Dollar Opportunity in Alzheimer's Disease Market: 6 Pipeline Therapies to… PR Newswire (Press Release)15:33 6-Aug-26

The occupations with the lowest alzheimer’s death rates The Independent15:19 6-Aug-26

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's -- mental maps protect brain UPI14:33 6-Aug-26

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain The Conversation (UK)13:35 6-Aug-26

Saskatoon man says father with Alzheimer’s spent nearly five days in hospital hallway CTV News Saskatoon13:28 6-Aug-26

Lawton Chiles High School student wins Humane Science Award from National Anti-Vivisection… PR Newswire (Press Release)12:01 6-Aug-26

Woman with Alzheimer’s ‘regains mobility after magic mushrooms’ The Independent11:28 6-Aug-26

Care home staff in Poole complete skydive to raise funds for Alzheimer's Society Bournemouth Daily Echo07:50 6-Aug-26

Avoiding 3 things between 45 and 65 'delays dementia by 13 years' Teesside Live06:44 6-Aug-26

Leqembi for early Alzheimer's treatment launched in India after Cdsco nod The Hindu05:56 6-Aug-26

High-resolution scans reveal how depression affects hippocampal subfields News-Medical.Net05:54 6-Aug-26

Hundreds take to Bowmoor Lake for Lechlade charity open water swim Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard05:03 6-Aug-26

Study reveals treatment gaps for atypical Alzheimer's disease patients News-Medical.Net04:53 6-Aug-26

NIH funds Boston University center for Alzheimer's prevention studies News-Medical.Net04:43 6-Aug-26

AI tool aims to accelerate Alzheimer's treatment through faster referrals News-Medical.Net04:12 6-Aug-26

New blood test may predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms, UNM researchers say KOB 403:44 6-Aug-26

Actinogen Medical outlines scientific case for Xanamem in Alzheimer’s disease ahead of pivotal… Proactive Investors (Australia)01:03 6-Aug-26

The Small Cap Watch: Healthcare, critical minerals and gold explorers advance projects Proactive Investors (Australia)01:03 6-Aug-26

Most People with Atypical Alzheimer’s May Be Ineligible for New Therapies Newswise (Press Release)21:08 5-Aug-26

Team’s AI agent to speed Alzheimer’s treatment Newswise (Press Release)20:09 5-Aug-26

View of Alzheimer’s disease peptide could inform new drugs YaleNews19:09 5-Aug-26

Charity walk aims to raise £40k to find a cure for dementia Yorkshire Evening Post16:39 5-Aug-26

Dementia after age 90 Newswise (Press Release)16:14 5-Aug-26

Ad/Pd™ 2027, Organized by Kenes Group, Issues Global Call for Abstracts on Alzheimer's,… PR Newswire (Press Release)13:37 5-Aug-26

Sleep, Genes, and the Hidden Risk of Alzheimer’s Knowridge Science Report13:06 5-Aug-26

New metric detects early Alzheimer’s changes in brain white matter News-Medical.Net12:46 5-Aug-26

Study of “super movers” suggests exceptional mobility in late life is a powerful marker of brain health PsyPost11:09 5-Aug-26

New clinical trial shows promising results for dementia agitation treatment LEX1811:04 5-Aug-26

VY1706 Alzheimer’s gene therapy achieves 75 percent tau reduction in preclinical study Drug Target Review10:35 5-Aug-26

The Small Cap Wrap: Actinogen Medical targets Alzheimer’s treatment gap; Percheron Phase II… Proactive Investors (Australia)08:25 5-Aug-26

What Andy Burnham told his mum during emotional embrace outside Number 10 Manchester Evening News06:25 5-Aug-26

Actinogen Medical targets Alzheimer’s treatment gap in projected $20BN market Proactive Investors (Australia)03:30 5-Aug-26

New study advances understanding of dementia after age 90 News-Medical.Net03:06 5-Aug-26

Andy Burnham shares wife Marie-France van Heel’s first reaction to his plan to run for PM The Mirror00:03 5-Aug-26

Guide Bridge Theatre performances to raise money for Willow Wood Hospice and Alzheimer’s Society Tameside Correspondent20:08 4-Aug-26

Alzheimer's Paper Retracted; MS Before Epstein-Barr Infection; Brain Aging Map Medpage Today19:37 4-Aug-26

Tuberculosis BCG vaccine alters biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s Skeptical Raptor19:05 4-Aug-26

Losing sleep over glia: new mechanisms for Alzheimer-related sleep disruption Nature.com17:48 4-Aug-26

Lower cardiac output predicts faster brain loss in carriers of Alzheimer’s disease risk gene Newswise (Press Release)16:21 4-Aug-26

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Latest news on Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia, memory loss, brain health, treatment, research, clinical trials, caregiving, and support for patients and families affected by this neurodegenerative condition.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting over 50 million people worldwide. It is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys memory, thinking skills, and the ability to perform daily tasks. As the global population ages, the number of people living with Alzheimer's is expected to triple by 2050, making it a significant public health concern.

Recent developments in Alzheimer's research include advances in early detection, such as blood tests and brain imaging techniques, as well as potential new treatments targeting the underlying causes of the disease. However, challenges remain in finding effective therapies, with several high-profile clinical trials failing to meet their primary endpoints. Leading organizations like the Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer's Research UK continue to fund and support cutting-edge research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Beyond the scientific aspects, Alzheimer's has a profound impact on individuals, families, and communities. Our feed highlights personal stories of those living with the disease, as well as the dedicated caregivers who support them. We also cover local events and initiatives aimed at raising awareness, providing resources, and building support networks for those affected by Alzheimer's.

The history of Alzheimer's dates back to 1906, when German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer first described the distinctive brain changes associated with the disease. Since then, researchers have made significant strides in understanding the complex factors contributing to its development, including genetic, lifestyle, and environmental influences. However, much work remains to be done to fully unravel the mysteries of this devastating condition.

As the leading cause of dementia, Alzheimer's disease demands our attention and action. Our NewsNow feed is committed to providing comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of Alzheimer's, from the latest research breakthroughs to the personal stories of those on the frontlines of this global health crisis. By staying informed and engaged, we can work together to improve the lives of those affected by Alzheimer's and move closer to a world without this heartbreaking disease.

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