By Ransdell Pierson Dec 12 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly & Co plans to conduct a big new trial of its experimental Alzheimer's disease treatme...

By Ransdell Pierson Dec 11 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co is confident it will do for Alzheimer's patients what it did almost a...

By Keith Sinzinger, for U.S. News More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and the nonprofit Alzheimer's Association projects that, ...

There is ongoing to research to find medications that will not just treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, but hopefully stop or slow the progress of it. In order to develop new treatments, volunteers are needed for clinical trials.

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, July 11 (Reuters) - A gene that causes the rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease can also carry a ...

WASHINGTON — Effective treatments for Alzheimer's by 2025? That's the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tack...

An experimental drug being developed by Roche Holding AG removed amyloid plaques from the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients in a small early-...

If Alzheimer's disease cannot currently be stopped or cured, what difference does early detection make?

The new national policy initiative for early diagnosis will do nothing for the millions of Americans with dementia and those who love them -- unless we can give them a life worth living.

NEW YORK — Drugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of...

Scientists are reporting advances in detecting and predicting Alzheimer's disease at a conference in Honolulu this week, plus more proof that getting ...

Gary Small, professor of Psychiatry and Aging at the UCLA School of Medicine, says that perhaps the biggest misconception about Alzheimer's is that th...