A blood test can now detect Alzheimer’s disease early, and a Canton neurologist is among the first in the country using it.

The idea is straightforward: Take a blood test now, even without symptoms, and learn if you could some day develop ...

In a major breakthrough, researchers have developed a simple blood test that may one day help doctors predict how fast ...

A common blood test marker may reveal Alzheimer’s risk years in advance. Elevated immune cells could signal danger early and ...

An international trial is examining whether a finger-prick blood test could be used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, ...

A pioneering study indicates that Alzheimer’s disease is considerably more widespread among individuals over 85 than previously believed. The research also found that over one in ten people aged 70 ...

Most primary care patients were open to Alzheimer's blood-based biomarker tests after a brief explanation, a survey showed. The top two barriers to blood testing were cost and concerns about test ...

Alzheimer’s disease kills more Americans each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, and one in three older ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...