How pregnancy and childbirth may protect some women from developing dementia

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

Women make up some 60% of Alzheimer’s disease patients in the United States, and over her lifetime, a woman is almost twice as likely than a man to develop the memory-robbing condition. New research offers tantalizing clues as to why that might be, suggesting that either hormonal influences or...

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