In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is struggling to cope with their husband's dementia ...

DEAR ERIC: My husband has dementia; it’s getting worse by the month. I am the caregiver. Our daughter calls on her way home ...

Ramona Coelho said Clooney's upcoming movie about a man with Alzheimer's who travels to Switzerland for an assisted suicide will 'romanticize death' and trigger a 'suicide contagion'.

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that images portraying dementia in Finnish newspapers often paint a ...

Time availability can impact the development of dementia perhaps as much as diet and exercise, according to a panel of scientists. The group says its research should cause a paradigm shift in the ...

For years, the common wisdom and science was that a little bit of alcohol wasn’t bad — and even beneficial — for your health: A toast to moderation. But new research published in BMJ Evidence-Based ...

A large study has found that calcium supplements, long recommended for bone health, particularly in older women, don’t increase dementia risk, offering reassurance for the millions who take them to ...

My beloved grandmother Evelyn lived independently into her 90s. She clutched my arm tightly at every visit, sharing her terror that she would lose her prodigious ...

Even light drinking (under seven drinks a week) showed no protective effect in the largest combined study to date. Genetic analyses suggest the more alcohol you’re predisposed to consume, the higher ...

We know inhaling polluted air harms our lungs—but what about our brains? According to compelling new research, pollution may put you at higher risk of being hospitalized for one of the most common ...

“This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that ...