People diagnosed with dementia are living longer than before—thanks to advancements in the early identification of the condition and improvements in treatments and tailored care. This is the ...

For the first time, the State of Global Air 2025 report quantifies how dirty air affects the brain, broadening pollution's ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The clock is running for people who’ve been diagnosed with dementia, but the time they have left depends on their age. Average life expectancy for people with ...

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds a systematic ...

According to new research, air pollution damages brain health throughout life and is responsible for 29% of fatalities from ...

Vascular dementia - cognitive impairment caused by disease in the brain's small blood vessels - is a widespread problem, but it has not been as thoroughly studied as Alzheimer's disease, in which ...

She highlights some significant overlap with Alzheimer's disease, and she says her team's novel microscopy method sheds light on how microplastics that have seeped into the body could be triggering or ...