I'm a single mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 48, so I'm choosing to end my life. But I won't tell my daughter...
Rebecca noticed memory lapses and mid-conversation blackouts two years ago, but chalked them up to stress.
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4 days ago
Alzheimer's drugs that slow the disease will not be made available on the NHS
Two breakthrough Alzheimer's drugs cost too much and have too little benefit for NHS use, review finds.
8 days ago
NHS patients battling Alzheimer's WON'T be offered 'miracle' drugs as health watchdog rules they are 'too expensive to justify'
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has refused the 'miracle' drugs lecanemab and donanemab for use on the NHS as they are too expensive to justify.
10 days ago
I was diagnosed with Alzheimer's after 'overused' medical procedure caused my dementia
At 61, Sean Fischer's mother was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's after decades of worsening symptoms - until a spinal dye scan found a tiny leak from past epidurals, the true cause of her illness.
16 days ago
Alzheimer’s blood test can spot people with early symptoms, study suggests
New test accurately diagnoses dementia by examining two proteins in blood plasma, US researchers find
A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease can accurately detect people with early symptoms, researc…
18 days ago
‘People were repressed into silence’: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism’s horrors
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A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of Franco
The map of Paco Roca’s mind, a landscape of memory and loss, unfolds across the walls…
26 days ago
First subtle sign of dementia that can strike 20 years before disease sets in - as experts discover the condition has a 'stealth phase'
Scientists may be one step closer to a cure for Alzheimer's , after pinpointing telltale signs of the memory-robbing disease that can occur up to twenty years before symptoms strike.
Early warning signs I blamed on stress that were actually early-onset Alzheimer's in my forties
Rebecca has lost her keys only to find them in the ignition. Left the stove on for an hour unattended. Blacks out mid-conversation. At 48, she has Alzheimer's.
28 days ago
You can spot Alzheimer's YEARS before symptoms appear with groundbreaking new scan...would YOU have it?
Until now, dementia diagnoses have often relied on questionnaires to indicate problems with memory as well as MRI scans to track loss of brain volume.
31 days ago
Three symptoms that strike when you walk, talk and urinate that could mean you have rare brain disorder suffered by Billy Joel
It's the condition that affects an estimated 700,000 Americans, but is often mistaken for dementia, Alzheimer's or Parkinsons.