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A large new study is challenging a basic assumption behind most dementia prevention advice: that the same risk factors matter roughly the same amount everywhere. They don’t, according to researchers, and that has real implications for how prevention programs get…
One of the more unsettling facts about Alzheimer’s disease is also one of the least discussed outside research circles. Roughly 30% of people whose brains show the full pathological signature of the disease, the plaques, the tangles, all of it,…
Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease have always occupied separate rooms in medicine. Different specialists, different journals, different drugs, different fears. A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Boston Children’s Hospital, published in the journal Cell,…
Everyone already knows exercise keeps older muscles stronger. What’s been missing is the why, the actual biological mechanism sitting underneath that advice doctors have been giving for decades. A new study out of Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, working with…
Nearly 60% of American adults take some kind of dietary supplement, and glucosamine is one of the most routine choices on that list. Tens of millions of older adults take it daily for joint pain and osteoarthritis, buy it off…
The brain has its own waste removal system, a set of molecular pumps stationed along the blood-brain barrier whose job is to flush toxic material out before it can pile up. In Alzheimer’s disease, that system breaks down. The pumps…
Every geriatrician has some version of the same story. A patient comes in tired all the time, unsteady on their feet, a little foggier than they used to be, maybe some tingling in the fingertips that comes and goes. The…
If a parent or spouse has had what doctors call a lacunar stroke, the treatment plan probably looked familiar. An aspirin, maybe a statin, the standard playbook built around clearing blocked arteries. New research out of the University of Edinburgh…
A newly discovered protein called HELZ2 can dial down the number of LDL particles the liver releases into the blood, and it works before the cholesterol particle is even built. For decades, nearly every cholesterol drug on the market has…
Julie Zissimopoulos has spent years tracking what dementia actually costs the country, not the number insurers see, but the real one. Her latest figure, published this year through the Alzheimer’s Association, puts the total at $818 billion in 2026. That…
