For people who have well-established disease, the vaccine can do nothing to return dead brain cells and certainly can’t return memories, … although it could potentially arrest the disease in whatever stage the individual is...

The trade-off is clearly going to be this small risk,

If you could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s by half, that would be a huge accomplishment.

If they prove this does stabilize Alzheimer’s disease, they will have done a wonderful thing, … If not, they will have spent a lot of money.

I think it’s very exciting to see this product moving forward because it is going to be a test of one of the fundamental theories of Alzheimer’s disease. While we don’t know whether the product...

This drug is useful. Its effects are definite, but relatively modest.

You can’t do anything about your family history.

The equation is open to future adjustment as we get medications that affect the progression of the disease. Brain scans will offer information about who gets treated and who doesn’t.

Many of the factors that can put our brain health at risk are things we can modify and control. This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers...

This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers of sick and mentally declining older people, and reduce health care costs. To accomplish that, we need more research...