PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's was made by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, where a test was created to detect the disease in the brain earlier.

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,” Charles Piller looks how the amyloid hypothesis took over ...

An AI-powered "death clock" has predicted when users will die — all the way down to the second they will die. According to ...

University of Queensland researchers have discovered that nearly 70% of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that ...

Sepsis, a life-threatening organ dysfunction, is responsible for an estimated 1 in 5 deaths globally and 1 in 3 deaths that ...

Sometimes the small tragedies, like losing a beloved pet, can help us understand the larger tragedies happening all around us ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test developed at the ...

Scientists develop groundbreaking dual-action drug RI-AG03 that targets toxic tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease, showing ...

Scientists at Southern Methodist University have uncovered new clues about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), a ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery resulted in stroke survivors being more likely to have better function 90 days ...

Mild electrical brain stimulation did not further improve motor recovery in stroke survivors, according to late-breaking science presented today at the American Stroke Association's International ...