Typically, organ transplants last 15 to 20 years when they come from a living donor. But Pat Koppa is beating the odds in a ...

The memories of Christmas are strong in "the house of many stories" where Carol and her husband Don Smidt lived for over 30 years. Their Christmas villages were one of Don's collections and joys. He ...

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Jennie,' a lifelike robotic puppy from Tombot, was designed for people living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia ...

Jan. 8, 2025 — Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, particularly in women. Levels were found to drop ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a surprising link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of Alzheimer's disease in a subset of people.

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TauRx Pharma's effort to bring a tau-targeting drug for Alzheimer's disease (AD) to market has been a marathon, with a number of setbacks over the years, but the company reckons it may finally be ...

Here are five things you can do to help lower your chances of developing dementia, with illustrations by multi-award winning cartoonist, the late Tony Husband. Here are five things you can do to help ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...