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The longtime radio and TV broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.The 77-year-old presenter, who has been a regular on the BBC since the…

Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover has revealed he has been living with Alzheimer’s for several years.Glover, 79, announced the news during an interview on The Today…

What a lot of Krapp. Pardon my French but Samuel Beckett’s haunting 1958 masterpiece about regret and isolation is having a moment. Stephen Rea recently took…

Long-serving presenter has been diagnosed with commonest form of dementia, says Alzheimer’s SocietyThe former Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease,…

Drugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.The analysis…

Ethics statementThe YA, HA, PCI and AD samples were obtained from the University of Washington repository bank. In 2016, the University of Washington Institutional Review Board…

Alzheimer’s disease is about to become a big problem for China. Nearly 30% of all people with the condition or related forms of dementia already live…

Abnormal tau proteins can form tangled fibres that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s (slice at left). (Brain without Alzheimer’s shown at right.)Credit: Alfred…

February 19, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAlzheimer’s blood tests predict what age people will be when the disease may cause symptoms, study findsTests…

New therapies for Alzheimer’s disease should target a particular gene linked to the condition, according to researchers who said most cases would never arise if its…