The FDA recently cleared the Lumipulse blood test for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in people 55 and over with memory loss. The noninvasive Lumipulse blood test measures the levels of two ...

In many cases, it's not until memory problems start creeping up that most people learn they have Alzheimer's disease. By then, the disease may already be progressing, leaving limited options for ...

Topeka's Cotton O'Neil is using a new, early diagnosis tool to test new Alzheimer's treatments.

Cheap blood tests that could spot Alzheimer’s early are set to be given to more than a thousand adults in an effort to ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared another blood test that could help doctors identify whether a patient's memory problems are likely caused by Alzheimer's disease. The new test, called ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a digital cognitive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease that is intended for use in primary care. "This digital test, which patients perform ...

What if screening for the diseases that cause dementia could start with something as quick as a finger-prick blood test?

John Stennard, a healthy study volunteer taking the Fastball test in his home, with Dr George Stohart from the University of Bath. A simple brainwave test developed at the University of Bath has been ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been one of medicine’s most difficult puzzles. By the time symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, and language difficulties become obvious enough for a clinical ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...

The study found that by using this ultrasound technology on test mice, a 75% memory function was fully restored.