Former professional footballer and manager, Alex McLeish is supporting the growing demand for heading a football to be classified as an industrial injury. The call…
Read more...A man who inspired the Taunton Male Voice Choir in Somerset to stage a fundraising concert in aid of Alzheimer’s UK in Oake on Saturday…
Read more...The NHS is diagnosing tens of thousands more people with dementia since the start of the pandemic, thanks to NHS recovery efforts.
Read more...Following his appointment as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Lord Cameron has stepped down as President of Alzheimer’s Research UK. He…
Read more...Experts have said that blood tests for Alzheimer’s could be available on the NHS within five years. That’s thanks to the Blood Biomarker Challenge, a…
Read more...A new nationwide poll has revealed that only six in ten UK adults* (60%) realise that dementia is a cause of death – despite it…
Read more...An estimated 1.7 million people could be living with dementia in England and Wales by 2040, over 40% more than previously predicted according to a…
Read more...Nature Neuroscience: Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus. The study published in Nature Neuroscience, uses a technique known as temporal interference (TI)…
Read more...Over 50% of local authorities in England are falling short of the national dementia diagnosis target leaving hundreds of thousands without a vital dementia diagnosis….
Read more...Following the first ever publication of data confirming that 34,412 people in England have been diagnosed with young-onset dementia (dementia which first appears before the…
Read more...Researchers at University College London have identified subtle changes in the way people with early features of Alzheimer’s disease navigate through a virtual reality space….
Read more...Researchers from the University College London have found that common dementia risk factors may have a more pronounced effect among people from certain ethnicities. The…
Read more...The ALBORADA Trust, based near Newmarket, has donated £5 million to Alzheimer’s Research UK. The donation supports the ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute (DDI) at the…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has funded two researchers from Cardiff University to carry out projects aimed at finding new treatments…
Read more...A poll of GPs in the UK has shown primary care doctors want to prescribe assistive technologies to patients diagnosed with dementia. More than two-thirds…
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