Right now, while we have a number of strategies that can help prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, we don’t have any way to reverse it altogether. However, a team at the Gladstone Institutes has recently made a promising discovery about what goes wrong with memory function in Alzheimer’s patients. They’re hopeful that these findings could lead to better ways of supporting this process to enable people to better hold onto their precious memories.

There are a lot of theories about why our country’s obesity rate has skyrocketed in recent years. But few of them have considered these facts.

We’re all familiar with the movie scene in which the overly aggressive executive is just about to close a deal only to be stopped by a heart attack. Stress is a killer. But until recently, when it came to cardiovascular disease, scientists weren’t quite sure how the link between stress and cardiovascular disease actually worked. Now a new study is shedding some light on the issue.