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Researchers at King’s College London have identified a promising new strategy for tackling Alzheimer’s disease by targeting several of the disease’s earliest biological changes at the same time. Their study found that KCL-286, an experimental drug originally developed for spinal cord injury that has already passed Phase 1 safety trials, reduced multiple hallmarks of Alzheimer’s…

A blood test may predict the start of Alzheimer’s symptoms years in advance and doctors say it could become a game changer. The study shows a blood test can help identify healthy people at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease and how far their disease has progressed

Federal data play an essential – and mostly invisible – role in supporting the more than 7 million Americans with Alzheimer’s and their nearly 12 million unpaid caregivers

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Moore today announced Maryland’s Code Red air quality condition resulting from the Canadian and Northern United States wildfires

AT A GLANCE: Crohn’s disease is a condition that can affect any part of the digestive system. While it affects people throughout their lives in different ways, more treatment options are now available. Physicians are also finding promising lifestyle adjustments to help with the disease. Here are five things you will learn about Crohn’s disease from Sowmya…

Several cases of a parasitic illness that’s spreading across the country have been reported in Alaska, state public health officials say

Heavy smoke from wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is engulfing large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, impacting air quality as millions of people are exposed to hazardous levels of air pollution. 

Over one billion people struggle with mental health worldwide, a burden that is increasing, mainly driven by anxiety and depression

For decades, promising therapies have stalled — not for lack of good science, but because the path to approval has been too uncertain, too costly or too poorly incentivised to sustain traditional development models

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has once again drifted into New York, turning skies hazy and pushing air quality into unhealthy levels across much of the state