Eric J. Hall

What President Reagan did for Alzheimer's disease in general, legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt is doing for early onset dementia-Alzheimer's type in particular. Every time news hits about Summitt -- not about her victories with the University of Tennessee women's basketball team, but about her fight with dementia...

When multiple moving parts are at play, it's only logical that things will start advancing. That's what is happening now in the Alzheimer's disease cause.

The Obama Administration's announcement that it will pump $50 million into Alzheimer's disease research this year and will propose $80 million in...

All you have to do is listen -- really listen -- to people newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease to know our nation has no time to waste in developing a national strategy to defeat this devastating disease. Their sheer terror runs high: They know their ultimate fate -- with no...

For people like Karen C., whose mother has Alzheimer's disease, today is a much better day than yesterday. Today, I can give her a more hopeful response to her inquiry to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's social services team than I could have given her yesterday.

"My parents do...

Here's a fact you haven't heard in the health care reform debate, but its impact over the next decade will be enormous: the incidence of Alzheimer's disease doubles every five years after age 65. With seniors on the threshold of a boom, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias could potentially overload...