Researchers use AI and postmortem tissue to reveal that tau PET scans are often influenced by iron and neuroinflammation rather than tau tangles alone.

Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.

Researchers develop a 96% accurate AI-powered retinal scan to distinguish between Alzheimer’s and ALS by detecting specific protein deposits.

Psychologically, it's really hard knowing that we aren’t doing anything to stop the cancer growing.

Health care prices are on the rise, and patients are flummoxed that even insurance companies aren’t doing more to control costs.

And it costs all of us ...

Psychologically, it's really hard knowing that we aren’t doing anything to stop the cancer growing.

I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed ...

In the fall of 2022, when I was 42 and living with my wife and three young kids in a small town in northwest Minnesota, a specialist at an unfamiliar hospital approached us with some test results. He ...

Wrapping up Q4 earnings, we look at the numbers and key takeaways for the healthcare providers & services stocks, including ...

Each monthly installment examines an aspect of Alzheimer's disease care, including making and delivering the diagnosis; ...