Scientists have identified prematurely aged astrocytes in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, particularly those with the APOE4 risk gene. Their findings suggest that cellular senescence in these ...

Older adults dealing with depression often face compounding challenges when they become intensely fearful of their own ...

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

A healthy brain has wrinkles and neurons traveling together. In a brain affected by Alzheimer’s, the brain itself is smaller and the neuron structures have lost definition. The first areas of the ...

Lincoln police are asking for help finding a missing 80-year-old man. Craig Madson was last seen at the Super Target on Wednesday morning around 11 a.m. on South 40th Street in Lincoln.

An upcoming multi-million dollar study at the University of Rochester aims to explore whether an HIV drug can slow aging and combat diseases like dementia and diabetes.Chief Investigative Reporter ...

Scientists have zeroed in on a critical weak spot behind a rare but devastating brain autoimmune disorder often known as ...

In the paper, If You Had One Shot: Scale and Herding in Innovation Experiments, the researchers found that when firms can only run one experiment, this leads to insufficient diversity at the market ...

While lifesaving vaccines face a relentless onslaught from the Trump administration—with fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert ...

A simple blood test could predict not only a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, but also the year symptoms will begin.

Memory loss can happen for many reasons, including normal aging, stress, lack of sleep, medication side effects, or medical ...

In one corner: consumers fed up with high drug prices. In the other: pharmaceutical companies arguing that price controls stifle innovation. The still-resonant 2003 documentary 'The Other Drug War' is ...