Research Hints at Underlying Cause for Alzheimer’s Drug Trial Failures

Monday, October 3, 2016 - 08:31 in Health & Medicine

Because Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, many people use the two terms interchangeably. But inadequate blood flow to the brain due to microinfarcts, mini-strokes, or strokes is a hallmark of a disease called Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID). VCID is the second most common cause of dementia, and the two […]

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