More than 6 million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a number expected to climb as the population ages. Scientists continue searching for factors that influence the disease’s ...

Eighty Alzheimer's patients have been treated with a vaccine in a revolutionary attempt to reverse the disease. Doctors involved in the trials say they are only months away from discovering ...

The vaccine, developed by Jonathan Lovell, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in UB’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, targets multiple sites within key parts of the two main disease hallmarks of ...

Getting the Shingrix vaccine after the age of 50 can reduce your chances of developing the painful skin condition known as ...

The Trump administration has started quietly re-hiring some of the FDA employees that it fired last week in a process that ...

A vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease developed by United Neuroscience has cleared a phase IIa trial, and seems to be free of the toxicity that has scuppered earlier candidates. To be clear ...

Most shocking to CARD workers was the termination of lead researcher Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, who was announced internally ...

A new study found that some medications could have the unintended benefit of reducing dementia risk, while others could increase the risk. A doctor comments on the findings.

A treatment to reverse Alzheimer's Disease could be available in five years, it has been revealed. Experiments on mice have indicated that a new vaccine not only halts the advance of the disease ...

However, a recent Cambridge-led study has found a link between commonly used prescription drugs – including antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines – and a lower risk of dementia. Given these ...

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