A laboratory technician holds a blood sample in Germany. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Senior Correspondent As the world’s population ages, health experts are bracing for higher rates of age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of 2023, an estimated 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older were living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the ...

This article was produced in partnership with the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Henry, a carpenter in ...

Roche is on a roll: For the second time in less than a year, the company has scored FDA clearance for a pair of assays that can be used together to help spot signs of Alzheimer’s disease. The duo ...

Researchers with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and four other institutions have developed a molecular test to identify the presence of brain ...

In my neurotech travels the most common companies I encounter are those building digital dementia screening tools. These are a class of brain health assessments to see whether a person might have, or ...

Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time in the Nov. 1 Science, may help explain why sleep is so ...