“This research is taking promising steps toward a new one-of-a-kind therapy which targets tau, a damaging protein in the brains of people living with Alzheimer’s, preventing it from clumping together,” said Richard Oakley, associate director of research and innovation at the Alzheimer’s Society UK, which funded the research.

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease. For the first time, scientists have developed a drug that works on both major aggregation-promoting 'hotspots' of the Tau protein in

In a recent study conducted by researchers from Hong Kong, evidence has emerged suggesting that your cholesterol medication could help to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers found that statins,