MELBOURNE: Melbourne researchers are working on an injectable treatment for traumatic brain injury using the protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.

The University of Melbourne team hopes doctors could inject players after a head clash, or paramedics could administer the peptide to car crash victims, so Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO: A UC San Francisco study that examined a population of older adults for more than a decade showed that poor performance on a simple odor test was linked to increased risk of developing dementia years later.

The study of more than 2,400 older Read More »

MELBOURNE: Melbourne researchers are working on an injectable treatment for traumatic brain injury using the protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.

The University of Melbourne team hopes doctors could inject players after a head clash, or paramedics could administer the peptide to car crash victims, so Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Alzheimer’s disease will be diagnosed and ­potentially prevented more than 20 years before symptoms of the crippling brain disorder appear under radical research to be undertaken in Australia this year.

Sydney researchers now have the technology to scan for Alzheimer’s with a ­simple eye Read More »