New data on causes of death reveals more than 17,500 people died of dementia in 2024 nationwide, according to the Australian ...

The roadmap to fighting Alzheimer’s disease is a matter of updating government policy to match the current science.

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Actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with aphasia in 2022, which ended his acting career and drew attention to this condition. In ...

There are many reasons why a 79-year-old man might need to get an MRI scan of his brain, some benign, some more concerning.

Dementia is now Australia’s leading cause of death, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed. Last year, the horror ...

Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, accounted for over 17,500 deaths in 2024 and is now the nation's leading cause of death, overtaking ischaemic ...

Hypertension impairs blood vessels, neurons and white matter in the brain well before the condition causes a measurable rise ...

A new study shows that lecanemab, an amyloid-clearing Alzheimer’s therapy, does not improve the brain’s waste-removal network ...

Deaths from coronary heart disease in Australia have fallen to their lowest rate in almost 50 years. There's a new leading ...

Dementia deaths have hit a record high and fatal heart disease is at a new low, as the impacts of the ageing population ...

Mayo Clinic scientists have developed a new method to predict Alzheimer's risk decades before symptoms appear, using brain scans and genetics to estimate a 10-year likelihood.