A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

Stewart set up the charity Race Against Dementia (www.raceagainstdementia.com) in 2016 after his wife Helen started to suffer from the disease. The charity raises and allocates funds to accelerate ...

Harvard researchers have pinpointed over a dozen risk factors for dementia and other brain disorders - and all of them are preventable. Researchers at Mass General Brigham analyzed 37 studies on ...

Three of the most common aging-related diseases share many of the same risk factors — and they can all be reduced through lifestyle changes. That’s according to a new study from Mass General ...

A new study from the University of Otago suggests that looking into your eyes might one day help doctors spot signs of dementia long before memory loss begins. The study was co-lead by author and ...

Overall, glucose-lowering therapy was not significantly associated with a reduction in all-cause dementia or cognitive impairment. Treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP ...

Image credit: mbbirdy/Getty Images. A new study investigates the relationship between specific diabetes drugs and dementia. They used data from more than 92,000 people with type 2 diabetes.

Scientists have known about a link between poor sleep and an increased risk of dementia for decades. Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in New York, says that ...

Former Uvalde High School valedictorian Shelby Colvin says her hopes of earning an athletic scholarship to college were dashed by a botched surgery on her right ankle, which she fractured while ...

The documents told the story of a woman now lost to dementia and her home sold out from under her. Aycox’s former neighbor, Deanna Torres, discovered the discarded mementos and salvaged what she ...