According to statistics, if you live to be over 85 years old, you have about a 50/50 chance of getting Alzheimer’s.

Studies have shown that if Alzheimer Disease runs in the family, your chances increase with each family member that has it.

Imagine hearing the words “She’s got Alzheimer’s”. By the year 2050, predictions are that 13.5 million Americans will be suffering from Alzheimer’s, losing their independence and bankrupting the healthcare system. Anyway we can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s can reap huge benefits for aging Americans.

SACRAMENTO — Charles DeCarli, a UC Davis researcher whose groundbreaking neuroimaging investigations are at the forefront of advancing understanding of the relationship between the structure and function of the healthy aging brain and changes in the brain associated with vascular and Alzheimer’s dementias, has been awarded the prestigious J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine by the …

Maggie Norris attended the 2010 Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Gala with Michele Herbert and Felicia Taylor at the Waldorf Astoria on October 26, 2010Photographed by Marc Dimov from Patrick McMullan

KSMU’s ongoing series on Alzheimer’s is focusing on Dr. Bill Sunderwirth and his family. Dr.

Teens lie about drug use, and so do parents; obesity drug failure leaves fewer options for diabetics.

Researchers in the Netherlands believe they have made a significant breakthrough in developing a medicine to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Association, the leading U.S. voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research, was presented with an Innovator Award in the Best Integrated Marketing Campaign category for their successful marketing campaign to promote the organization’s Action Summit 2010.

A Kaiser Permanente study reported this Monday that heavy smoking in midlife more than doubles the odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Heavy smoking in midlife more than doubles your odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a Kaiser Permanente study said Monday.

People who are heavy smokers in their midlife years are more than doubling their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia two decades later, a new study shows.

What’s good for your heart is good for your brain. Experts say exercise and a healthy diet are

Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema and infertility - and now, a new study says it could also increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

People who smoke heavily in middle age seem to more than double their risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia late in life, research suggests.

MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) — Heavy smoking in middle age seems to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, a large new study suggests.

California first lady Maria Shriver’s event kicks off 2010 Women’s Conference.

MANILA, Philippines – “Chaos of thought and passion, all confused,” — Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet An Essay on Man, Epistle II, Line 13 (1734) Our Sunday dinner at Café Ysabel a few weeks back, had fried pig brain as hors d’oeuvere. Chef Gene (Gonzalez) offered it to me across the table and I tried it. While firm on the surface, the inside was tasty gooey and I thought that if this …

Many proposed drugs for Alzheimer’s disease have been tested, but have not proved good enough. The reason could be because they have been tested on patients who have already developed dementia. At this point it could be too late to start medication, because the disease is now believed to begin decades before a patient displays clear symptoms

What Alzheimer’s takes from a person is so precious, so profound — it just flat breaks your heart.