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    "date": "2025-12-03",
    "summary": "Normal aging is characterized by deficits in the cognitive domains of learning, memory and executive function. Specifically, there are age-related changes in recall of information, speed of processing, visuospatial skills and cognitive flexibility. …",
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    "title": "Minnesota Paid Leave Program Launches Statewide January 1, 2026, Covering Leave to Care for an Ill Family Member",
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    "date": "2025-12-02",
    "summary": "The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and Gov. Tim Walz announced that the state's Paid Leave program, created by a 2023 law, launches statewide on January 1, 2026, providing eligible workers paid, job-protected time off for major life events including caring for an ill family member. Early applications for 2025 births opened Dec. 3, 2025; up to 20,000 Minnesotans were expected to apply in December and January. Small employers pay reduced premium rates and may qualify for grants to cover staffing costs during an employee's leave. The Minnesota Department of Revenue separately states that beginning January 2026 the program provides eligible individuals with medical or family leave.",
    "source": "Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED); Minnesota Department of Revenue",
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    "significance": "Minnesota's statewide Paid Leave program launches January 1, 2026, providing eligible workers with paid, job-protected time off for major life events, including caring for an ill family member.",
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    "date": "2025-11-28",
    "summary": "Researchers at Örebro University have developed two new AI models that can analyze the brain's electrical activity and accurately distinguish between healthy individuals and patients with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "diagnosis",
    "significance": "Researchers developed AI models analyzing brain electrical activity to distinguish healthy individuals from dementia and Alzheimer's patients.",
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    "title": "Pill form of semaglutide fails to slow Alzheimer's in large trial",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-pill-semaglutide-alzheimer-large-trial.html",
    "date": "2025-11-25",
    "summary": "A pill version of semaglutide, the ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, did not slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease, drugmaker Novo Nordisk announced on Nov. 24.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A pill form of semaglutide failed to slow Alzheimer's disease progression in a large trial, Novo Nordisk announced on Nov. 24.",
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    "title": "Novel discovery reveals how brain protein OTULIN controls tau expression and could transform Alzheimer's treatment",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-discovery-reveals-brain-protein-otulin.html",
    "date": "2025-11-25",
    "summary": "Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms toxic tangles in Alzheimer's disease. …",
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    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Scientists uncovered a surprising mechanism by which the brain enzyme OTULIN controls tau expression, which could transform Alzheimer's treatment.",
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    "title": "Alzheimer's Association Statement on Oral Semaglutide Phase 3 Topline Data Release",
    "summary": "Novo Nordisk's EVOKE and EVOKE+ Phase 3 trials of oral semaglutide in more than 3,800 people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's did not meet the primary endpoint of significantly slowing disease progression, despite improving some Alzheimer's-related biomarkers. Novo Nordisk ended its Alzheimer's trials for semaglutide, including the injectable version.",
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    "date": "2025-11-24",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A high-profile failure for the theory that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could treat Alzheimer's, dampening near-term hopes for repurposing this popular drug class for dementia.",
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  {
    "title": "J&J's Novel Alzheimer's Drug Fails in Key Trial, Dimming Hopes for a Hot Target",
    "summary": "Johnson & Johnson terminated its mid-stage trial of posdinemab, a tau-targeting antibody, after an early analysis showed it was not outperforming placebo in slowing Alzheimer's progression.",
    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/24/alzheimers-disease-johnson-and-johnson-posdinemab/",
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    "date": "2025-11-24",
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    "significance": "A setback for the broader strategy of targeting tau protein rather than amyloid, a drug class also being pursued by Biogen, UCB, and Voyager Therapeutics.",
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    "title": "APOE gene raises delirium risk even without dementia, global analysis reveals",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-apoe-gene-delirium-dementia-global.html",
    "date": "2025-11-24",
    "summary": "A major genetic risk factor for delirium has been identified in a study that analyzed the DNA of more than 1 million people worldwide.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A study analyzing DNA from over 1 million people worldwide identified a major genetic risk factor for delirium.",
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    "title": "Genetic risk combined with cardiovascular factors may help predict and delay dementia",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-genetic-combined-cardiovascular-factors-delay.html",
    "date": "2025-11-21",
    "summary": "Combining genetic risk with cardiovascular disease risk factors—such as high LDL cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension—may predict who is more likely to develop dementia, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Combining genetic risk with cardiovascular disease risk factors—such as high LDL cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension—may predict who is more likely to develop dementia.",
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    "title": "Simple blood test may someday allow for diagnosis of LATE dementia during life",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-simple-blood-diagnosis-late-dementia.html",
    "date": "2025-11-20",
    "summary": "Jijing Wang, Ph.D., and Hyun-Sik Yang, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Mass General Brigham, are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Molecular Neurodegeneration titled \"Plasma TDP-43 is a potential biomarker for advanced limbic-predominant…",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A simple blood test measuring plasma TDP-43 may someday enable doctors to diagnose advanced LATE dementia during a patient's life.",
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  {
    "title": "How AI can create a virtual programmable human and revolutionize drug discovery",
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    "date": "2025-11-20",
    "summary": "From idea, to lab, to clinic, to approval—it's a long and expensive process to bring a drug to market. It also rarely succeeds.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "significance": "AI can create a virtual programmable human and revolutionize drug discovery, which is key because bringing a drug to market is a long, expensive process that rarely succeeds.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1016/j.drudis.2025.104497"
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  {
    "title": "Senate Introduces Bipartisan ASAP Act (S. 3267), Companion to House Alzheimer's Screening Bill",
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    "summary": "S. 3267, the ASAP Act (Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention Act), was introduced in the Senate on Nov. 20, 2025 by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) with Sens. Cortez Masto, Capito and Warner as lead cosponsors, one day after the House companion H.R. 6130 (Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-FL). The bill would create a pathway for Medicare coverage of FDA-approved blood-based dementia screening tests. GovInfo bill status (updated 2026-09-26) shows 54 cosponsors (GovTrack: 30 Democrats, 24 Republicans); latest Senate action remains the Nov. 20, 2025 referral to the Committee on Finance. The related House bill was ordered reported by Ways and Means 40-0 on Sept. 16, 2026.",
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    "significance": "The bipartisan ASAP Act would create a pathway for Medicare coverage of FDA-approved blood-based dementia screening tests.",
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    "title": "House Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Accelerate Access to Alzheimer's Screening (ASAP Act)",
    "summary": "Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention (ASAP) Act, which would create a Medicare coverage pathway for FDA-approved blood-based dementia screening tests.",
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    "date": "2025-11-19",
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    "significance": "Targets a gap identified by clinicians and advocates: despite new FDA-cleared blood tests, Medicare currently won't pay for them as a pre-symptomatic screening tool.",
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    "title": "Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer's",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-shingles-vaccine-common-drug-potentially.html",
    "date": "2025-11-18",
    "summary": "A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A new study identified three existing medications, including the shingles vaccine, that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease.",
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    "date": "2025-11-17",
    "summary": "University of Kentucky researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer's disease treatments by targeting one of the brain's most important genes for risk and resilience.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer's disease treatments.",
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    "title": "New method to track progression of Alzheimer's, related dementias based on metabolic, vascular brain changes",
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    "date": "2025-11-10",
    "summary": "Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a highly sensitive diagnostic that predicts a person's stage of dementia based on neurovascular and metabolic changes. They recently published their findings in Alzheimer's & Dementia.",
    "source": "Medical Xpress",
    "category": "diagnosis",
    "significance": "Indiana University researchers developed a highly sensitive diagnostic predicting dementia stages based on neurovascular and metabolic changes.",
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    "date": "2025-11-09",
    "summary": "A new study suggests that even low levels of physical activity could protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease—but not in the way scientists expected.",
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    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A new study suggests that low levels of physical activity, like 3,000 steps a day, could protect the brain from Alzheimer's in unexpected ways.",
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    "title": "Protective microglia subtype offers potential therapeutic pathway in Alzheimer's disease",
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    "date": "2025-11-05",
    "summary": "In Alzheimer's disease—the leading cause of dementia—microglia, the brain's immune defenders, can act as both protectors and aggressors, shaping how the disease progresses.",
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    "title": "5,000 Steps a Day Could Slow Cognitive Decline in People With Signs of Alzheimer's, Study Suggests",
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    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "category": "research",
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    "title": "NIH releases Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research Progress Report and FY27 Professional Judgment Budget",
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    "date": "2025-09-08",
    "summary": "NIH released the FY 2027 Professional Judgment Budget for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and the NIH Scientific Progress Report.",
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    "significance": "The NIH has released its FY 2027 Professional Judgment Budget and Scientific Progress Report for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.",
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    "title": "FDA Approves Weekly Subcutaneous Maintenance Dosing for Leqembi (Leqembi IQLIK)",
    "summary": "The FDA approved a weekly at-home subcutaneous autoinjector maintenance dose of lecanemab (Leqembi IQLIK) for early Alzheimer's disease, the first amyloid-clearing antibody approved for self- or caregiver-administered injection. Patients who complete the initial 18-month IV infusion phase can switch to weekly injections.",
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    "date": "2025-08-29",
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  {
    "title": "Potential Stroke and Dementia Therapies Put on Hold at UCLA",
    "summary": "Federal funding suspensions tied to a Trump administration policy targeting universities cut off support for roughly 58 UCLA studies related to Alzheimer's, dementia, and other neurodegenerative diseases, including about $23 million backing the Neurology Department's work.",
    "url": "https://sciences.ugresearch.ucla.edu/2025/08/28/potential-stroke-and-dementia-therapies-along-with-oral-health-discoveries-put-on-hold-at-ucla",
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    "date": "2025-08-28",
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    "significance": "Shows how federal-university funding disputes can directly stall dementia drug and therapy research, including a UCLA-developed compound that had reached a pivotal testing stage.",
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    "title": "FDA to Recommend Additional, Earlier MRI Monitoring for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Taking Leqembi",
    "summary": "After identifying 101 serious ARIA-E cases, including four fatalities occurring after the third infusion, the FDA required an additional MRI scan between the second and third lecanemab infusions, on top of previously scheduled monitoring scans.",
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      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910013741/https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-communications/fda-recommend-additional-earlier-mri-monitoring-patients-alzheimers-disease-taking-leqembi-lecanemab",
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  {
    "title": "Senate Appropriations Committee Approves $100 Million Increase for Alzheimer's Research",
    "summary": "The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $100 million increase in NIH funding for Alzheimer's and dementia research for FY2026, which would bring total annual federal funding to about $3.9 billion, plus $41.5 million for CDC's Healthy Brain Initiative/BOLD Act programs.",
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    "source": "Alzheimer's Association",
    "date": "2025-07-31",
    "category": "funding",
    "significance": "Signals continued bipartisan congressional support for dementia research funding even amid broader proposed NIH budget cuts in the administration's FY2026 request.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260521114107",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260521114107/https://www.alz.org/news/2025/senate-appropriations-committee-approves-100-million-increase-alzheimers-research",
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  {
    "title": "U.S. POINTER Study Shows Structured Lifestyle Program Improves Cognition in Older Adults at Risk",
    "summary": "The two-year U.S. POINTER trial of 2,111 older adults at five U.S. sites found that both a structured and a self-guided multidomain lifestyle intervention (diet, exercise, cognitive/social engagement, health monitoring) improved cognition, with the structured program producing significantly greater gains. Results were published simultaneously in JAMA.",
    "url": "https://aaic.alz.org/releases-2025/us-pointer-study-results-announced.asp",
    "source": "Alzheimer's Association / AAIC",
    "date": "2025-07-28",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "First large U.S. randomized trial showing an accessible lifestyle program can protect cognition in a diverse at-risk population, offering a non-drug strategy alongside emerging medications.",
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260906194241",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260906194241/https://aaic.alz.org/releases-2025/us-pointer-study-results-announced.asp",
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  {
    "title": "Roche Presents New Insights in Alzheimer's Disease Research at AAIC (Trontinemab Phase Ib/IIa Data)",
    "summary": "Roche's trontinemab, an antibody engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier more efficiently, cleared amyloid below the positivity threshold in 91% of participants at the highest dose after 28 weeks, with ARIA-E occurring in fewer than 5% of participants. Roche plans Phase 3 trials (TRONTIER 1 and 2) starting later in 2025.",
    "url": "https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2025-07-28",
    "source": "Roche",
    "date": "2025-07-28",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Suggests a next-generation amyloid antibody could clear plaques faster and with a better safety profile than currently approved drugs, if Phase 3 results confirm early findings.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260725111046",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260725111046/https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2025-07-28",
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  {
    "title": "Connect with NIA at AAIC 2025",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/connect-nia-aaic-2025",
    "date": "2025-07-23",
    "summary": "Join NIA at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in Toronto from July 27-31.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20250922110526",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250922110526/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/connect-nia-aaic-2025",
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  {
    "title": "FDA Approves Label Update for Kisunla to Reduce ARIA-E Risk",
    "summary": "The FDA approved a revised, more gradual titration dosing schedule for donanemab (Kisunla) based on the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 6 study, which found the new regimen cut ARIA-E brain-swelling side effects by 41% at 24 weeks and 35% at 52 weeks without reducing amyloid-clearing efficacy.",
    "url": "https://www.pharmexec.com/view/fda-approves-label-update-eli-lilly-kisunla-reduce-aria-e-risk-early-alzheimer-disease-treatment",
    "source": "PharmExec (reporting Eli Lilly/FDA action)",
    "date": "2025-07-10",
    "category": "drug-approval",
    "significance": "A dosing change that meaningfully lowers a serious, sometimes fatal side-effect risk for patients on donanemab, without sacrificing the drug's benefit.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260611193242",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260611193242/https://www.pharmexec.com/view/fda-approves-label-update-eli-lilly-kisunla-reduce-aria-e-risk-early-alzheimer-disease-treatment",
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  {
    "title": "Alzheimer's Association Center for Dementia Respite Innovation Awards More Than $4 Million in New Round of Grants",
    "summary": "The Alzheimer's Association's Center for Dementia Respite Innovation awarded over $4 million to 41 community-based providers in 26 states, the second year of a five-year, $25 million program funded by a federal Administration for Community Living grant, to expand dementia-specific respite care.",
    "url": "https://www.alz.org/news/2025/alzheimers-association-center-for-dementia-respite-innovation-grants-4-million-in-second-year",
    "source": "Alzheimer's Association",
    "date": "2025-06-25",
    "category": "caregiving",
    "significance": "Directly funds more respite care options for the nearly 12 million unpaid dementia caregivers nationwide, addressing one of caregivers' most requested forms of support.",
    "dois": [],
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260412000653",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260412000653/https://www.alz.org/news/2025/alzheimers-association-center-for-dementia-respite-innovation-grants-4-million-in-second-year",
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  {
    "title": "Research training spotlight: NIA funding enables researcher-mentor to “pay it forward”",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/research-training-spotlight-nia-funding-enables-researcher-mentor-pay-it-forward",
    "date": "2025-06-02",
    "summary": "Read about how renowned researcher María J. Marquine, Ph.D.'s helps clinicians understand cognitive differences in aging across populations.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260731085009",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260731085009/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/research-training-spotlight-nia-funding-enables-researcher-mentor-pay-it-forward",
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  {
    "title": "NIA-funded small business spotlight: Bone Health Technologies shakes up the market to prevent bone density loss",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-funded-small-business-spotlight-bone-health-technologies-shakes-market-prevent-bone",
    "date": "2025-05-28",
    "summary": "Read how Bone Health Technologies, an NIA-funded small business, shakes up the market to prevent bone density loss.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "significance": "Bone Health Technologies, an NIA-funded small business, is shaking up the market to prevent bone density loss.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20250712142938",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250712142938/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-funded-small-business-spotlight-bone-health-technologies-shakes-market-prevent-bone",
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  {
    "title": "NIA Experimental Aging Research Training Course",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-experimental-aging-research-training-course-2025",
    "date": "2025-05-23",
    "summary": "Apply by July 11, 2025, for the Annual Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research on Sep. 8-12, 2025, which will provide exposure to research programs in the experimental biology of aging.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260730215558",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260730215558/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-experimental-aging-research-training-course-2025",
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  {
    "title": "FDA Clears First Blood Test Used in Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease",
    "summary": "The FDA granted 510(k) clearance to Fujirebio's Lumipulse G pTau217/Beta-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio test, the first blood test cleared to help diagnose Alzheimer's in adults 55 and older with signs of cognitive decline. In FDA's review, positive results correctly identified amyloid plaques 91.7% of the time and negative results correctly ruled them out 97.3% of the time.",
    "url": "https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clears-first-blood-test-used-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease",
    "source": "FDA",
    "date": "2025-05-16",
    "category": "diagnosis",
    "significance": "A simple blood draw can now help identify amyloid plaques without a spinal tap or PET scan, potentially speeding diagnosis and lowering costs, though FDA stressed it isn't a stand-alone diagnostic test.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20261010195941",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261010195941/https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clears-first-blood-test-used-diagnosing-alzheimers-disease",
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  {
    "title": "Biological clock based on blood measurements predicts mouse lifespan and frailty",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/biological-clock-based-blood-measurements-predicts-mouse-lifespan-and-frailty",
    "date": "2025-05-01",
    "summary": "NIA investigators have created a biological clock for mice based on blood measurements. Learn how the clock can help predict differences in aging and how the findings could translate to clinical practice.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "NIA investigators created a biological clock for mice based on blood measurements that helps predict differences in aging and could translate to clinical practice.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1038/s43587-024-00728-7"
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260802044655",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260802044655/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/biological-clock-based-blood-measurements-predicts-mouse-lifespan-and-frailty",
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  {
    "title": "2025 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures Report",
    "summary": "The Alzheimer's Association's annual report found 7.2 million Americans 65+ living with Alzheimer's, nearly 12 million family caregivers providing 19.2 billion hours of unpaid care (valued at about $413 billion), and total 2025 care costs projected at $384 billion; nearly 4 in 5 Americans said they'd want to know if they had Alzheimer's before symptoms worsened.",
    "url": "https://www.alz.org/wi/news/facts-and-figures-2025",
    "source": "Alzheimer's Association",
    "date": "2025-04-29",
    "category": "caregiving",
    "significance": "The most-cited annual benchmark data for the scale of Alzheimer's disease and its caregiving burden in the U.S., used by policymakers and advocates to justify funding and support programs.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260216150424",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260216150424/https://www.alz.org/wi/news/facts-and-figures-2025",
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  {
    "title": "NIA statement on the U.S. Cost of Dementia Model report",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-statement-u-s-cost-dementia-model-report",
    "date": "2025-04-25",
    "summary": "Read an announcement about an NIA-funded project that reports the economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in the United States.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "An NIA-funded project reports the economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in the United States.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260802040330",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260802040330/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/nia-statement-u-s-cost-dementia-model-report",
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  {
    "title": "Lifesaving Alzheimer's Research Delayed by Trump Funding Cuts",
    "summary": "A nearly $36 million NIH grant to a UC Davis dementia study was terminated in March 2025 before being reinstated after appeal, while 14 of 35 NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers faced funding uncertainty, including a $3 million loss at Columbia.",
    "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lifesaving-alzheimers-research-delayed-by-trump-funding-cuts/",
    "source": "Scientific American",
    "date": "2025-04-18",
    "category": "funding",
    "significance": "Interruptions to federal funding threaten ongoing patient studies, brain-bank operations, and the multi-institution collaborations needed to advance treatments.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260815152314",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260815152314/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lifesaving-alzheimers-research-delayed-by-trump-funding-cuts/",
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  {
    "title": "European Commission Approves First Disease-Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer's in the EU",
    "summary": "The European Commission authorized lecanemab (Leqembi) for early Alzheimer's disease across the EU, restricted to patients with no or one copy of the ApoE4 gene variant, after the EMA initially rejected it in 2024 and reversed course on appeal.",
    "url": "https://www.alzint.org/news-events/news/european-commission-approves-first-disease-modifying-treatment-for-alzheimers-disease-in-the-eu/",
    "source": "Alzheimer's Disease International",
    "date": "2025-04-15",
    "category": "drug-approval",
    "significance": "Opens access to the first amyloid-targeting therapy in Europe, though with tighter eligibility than in the U.S. and dependent on each country's reimbursement decisions.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260905181457",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260905181457/https://www.alzint.org/news-events/news/european-commission-approves-first-disease-modifying-treatment-for-alzheimers-disease-in-the-eu/",
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  {
    "title": "Alzheon's Alzheimer's Pill Fails in Phase III Trial",
    "summary": "Alzheon's oral drug valiltramiprosate missed the primary endpoint in its 325-patient APOLLOE4 Phase 3 trial of early Alzheimer's patients with two copies of the APOE4 gene, though a prespecified mild cognitive impairment subgroup showed larger cognitive and functional benefits.",
    "url": "https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/alzheon-alzheimers-pill-misses-phase-iii/",
    "source": "Clinical Trials Arena",
    "date": "2025-04-11",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Another setback for a non-antibody, oral approach to Alzheimer's treatment, though the positive subgroup signal could still support a narrower regulatory path.",
    "dois": [],
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260617100105",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260617100105/https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/alzheon-alzheimers-pill-misses-phase-iii/",
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  {
    "title": "A gene guiding brain cell growth may regulate Alzheimer’s plaque size and toxicity",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/gene-guiding-brain-cell-growth-may-regulate-alzheimers-plaque-size-and-toxicity",
    "date": "2025-04-10",
    "summary": "Plexin-B1 shapes glial networks around beta-amyloid plaques. An NIA-funded study has found that targeting it may improve plaque clearance and reduce brain inflammation.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Targeting Plexin-B1 may improve beta-amyloid plaque clearance and reduce brain inflammation, offering a potential path to regulate Alzheimer's plaque size and toxicity.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1038/s41593-024-01664-w"
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20261002074353",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261002074353/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/gene-guiding-brain-cell-growth-may-regulate-alzheimers-plaque-size-and-toxicity",
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  {
    "title": "Quest Diagnostics Launches New AD-Detect Blood Test to Aid in Confirming Alzheimer's Disease",
    "summary": "Quest Diagnostics launched a new AD-Detect Abeta42/40 and p-tau217 blood test nationwide (except New York), combining two biomarkers into a proprietary 'Likelihood Score' that showed about 89% positive/negative predictive values in studies presented at the 2025 AAN meeting.",
    "url": "https://newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/2025-04-09-Quest-Diagnostics-Launches-New-AD-Detect-TM-Blood-Test-to-Aid-in-Confirming-Alzheimers-Disease",
    "source": "Quest Diagnostics",
    "date": "2025-04-09",
    "category": "diagnosis",
    "significance": "Expands commercial, direct-to-clinician access to blood-based Alzheimer's biomarker testing through one of the largest U.S. lab networks, at lower cost than PET scans or spinal taps.",
    "dois": [],
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260417020106",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260417020106/https://newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/2025-04-09-Quest-Diagnostics-Launches-New-AD-Detect-TM-Blood-Test-to-Aid-in-Confirming-Alzheimers-Disease",
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  {
    "title": "New drug candidate targeting synaptic resilience well tolerated in Alzheimer’s patients",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/new-drug-candidate-targeting-synaptic-resilience-well-tolerated-alzheimers-patients",
    "date": "2025-04-03",
    "summary": "A new drug targeting synaptic resilience shows potential in treating Alzheimer’s disease in an NIA-funded study, with early trials indicating safety and possible brain damage reduction. Further research is needed on the drug’s long-term effects.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "An NIA-funded study shows a new Alzheimer's drug candidate targeting synaptic resilience is well tolerated in early trials and may reduce brain damage.",
    "dois": [
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
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      "snapshot": "20260801203057",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260801203057/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/new-drug-candidate-targeting-synaptic-resilience-well-tolerated-alzheimers-patients",
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  {
    "title": "South Africa cash transfer program slowed cognitive decline for midlife and older adults",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/south-africa-cash-transfer-program-slowed-cognitive-decline-midlife-and-older-adults",
    "date": "2025-03-27",
    "summary": "A modest cash-transfer intervention slowed memory decline and lowered dementia risk among midlife and older adults in rural South Africa.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A modest cash-transfer intervention slowed memory decline and lowered dementia risk among midlife and older adults in rural South Africa.",
    "dois": [
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
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      "snapshot": "20260730222622",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260730222622/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/south-africa-cash-transfer-program-slowed-cognitive-decline-midlife-and-older-adults",
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  {
    "title": "Advance care planning intervention improved end-of-life documentation but increased potentially burdensome care",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/advance-care-planning-intervention-improved-end-life-documentation-increased-potentially",
    "date": "2025-03-20",
    "summary": "An advance care planning intervention increased both the documentation of end-of-life preferences and potentially burdensome care.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "caregiving",
    "significance": "An advance care planning intervention increased the documentation of end-of-life preferences, but it also led to an increase in potentially burdensome care.",
    "dois": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260801190301",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260801190301/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/advance-care-planning-intervention-improved-end-life-documentation-increased-potentially",
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  {
    "title": "Review of Medicare data reveals potential new statistics on dementia diagnosis",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/review-medicare-data-reveals-potential-new-statistics-dementia-diagnosis",
    "date": "2025-03-13",
    "summary": "A study of Medicare data showed that roughly 9% of beneficiaries — 5.3 million people — may have Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A review of Medicare data indicates that approximately 9 percent of beneficiaries, totaling 5.3 million people, may have Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia.",
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260801183626",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260801183626/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/review-medicare-data-reveals-potential-new-statistics-dementia-diagnosis",
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  {
    "title": "Risk and future burden of dementia in the United States",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/risk-and-future-burden-dementia-united-states",
    "date": "2025-03-11",
    "summary": "NIA study reveals that nearly 42% of Americans over 55 may develop dementia, with new cases possibly doubling by 2060. Learn about the rising risk and future impact.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "An NIA study reveals that nearly 42% of Americans over 55 may develop dementia, with new cases possibly doubling by 2060.",
    "dois": [
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
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  {
    "title": "Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/timeframe-8-hour-restricted-eating-irrelevant-weight-loss",
    "date": "2025-03-06",
    "summary": "European adults with obesity who limited eating to any of three 8-hour window timeframes each day lost weight and improved cardiometabolic health.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "European adults with obesity lost weight and improved cardiometabolic health when limiting eating to any of three 8-hour window timeframes each day.",
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      "10.1038/s41591-024-03375-y"
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      "39775037"
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      "snapshot": "20260801194731",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260801194731/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/timeframe-8-hour-restricted-eating-irrelevant-weight-loss",
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  {
    "title": "A mother’s X chromosome affects learning and memory in later life",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/mothers-x-chromosome-affects-learning-and-memory-later-life",
    "date": "2025-03-04",
    "summary": "A mother’s X chromosomes may turn off key genes, accelerate brain cell aging process, and impair learning and memory later in life.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "A mother's X chromosomes may accelerate brain cell aging and turn off key genes, impairing learning and memory in later life.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1038/s41586-024-08457-y"
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      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260730215440",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260730215440/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/mothers-x-chromosome-affects-learning-and-memory-later-life",
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  {
    "title": "Senolytic therapy shows subtle impact on age-related bone health in women",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/senolytic-therapy-shows-subtle-impact-age-related-bone-health-women",
    "date": "2025-02-27",
    "summary": "An NIA-funded clinical trial investigating whether senolytics could improve bone health in older women had just subtle results.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "An NIA-funded clinical trial investigating whether senolytics could improve bone health in older women had just subtle results.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1038/s41591-024-03096-2"
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    "pmids": [
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20250707075650",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250707075650/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/senolytic-therapy-shows-subtle-impact-age-related-bone-health-women",
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  {
    "title": "Scientists develop improved mouse model for studying systemic aging-related health decline",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/scientists-develop-improved-mouse-model-studying-systemic-aging-related-health-decline",
    "date": "2025-02-25",
    "summary": "NIA scientists developed an improved mouse model to study aging-related health decline, revealing how inflammation drives organ damage.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "NIA scientists developed an improved mouse model to study aging-related health decline, revealing how inflammation drives organ damage.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1038/s43587-024-00635-x"
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260802053439",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260802053439/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/scientists-develop-improved-mouse-model-studying-systemic-aging-related-health-decline",
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  {
    "title": "Bright brain spots from small blood vessels could help predict Alzheimer’s risk",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/bright-brain-spots-small-blood-vessels-could-help-predict-alzheimers-risk",
    "date": "2025-02-20",
    "summary": "Bright spots in the brain called white matter hyperintensities contribute to Alzheimer’s risk. Reducing their accumulation might help slow or prevent the disease.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Bright spots in the brain called white matter hyperintensities contribute to Alzheimer’s risk, and reducing their accumulation might help slow or prevent the disease.",
    "dois": [
      "10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.12824"
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    "pmids": [
      "38776079"
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
    "archive": {
      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260804090838",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260804090838/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/bright-brain-spots-small-blood-vessels-could-help-predict-alzheimers-risk",
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  {
    "title": "Difficulty managing bills may signal early dementia",
    "url": "https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/difficulty-managing-bills-may-signal-early-dementia",
    "date": "2025-02-18",
    "summary": "Missed mortgage and credit card payments may signal early cognitive decline years before a dementia diagnosis, according to an NIA-funded study.",
    "source": "NIH National Institute on Aging",
    "category": "diagnosis",
    "significance": "Difficulty managing bills and missed payments may signal early cognitive decline years before a formal dementia diagnosis.",
    "dois": [
      "10.59576/sr.1106"
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    "refs_checked": "2026-10-10",
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      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20250221161311",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250221161311/https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/difficulty-managing-bills-may-signal-early-dementia",
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  {
    "title": "Nebraska Caregiver Tax Credit Takes Effect for 2025, With Higher $3,000 Cap for Dementia Caregivers",
    "url": "https://revenue.nebraska.gov/caregiver-tax-credit-act",
    "date": "2025-02-01",
    "summary": "Nebraska's Caregiver Tax Credit Act (LB 937, enacted 2024) is operative for tax years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2025. The Department of Revenue began accepting applications in February 2025. The nonrefundable credit equals 50% of eligible caregiving expenditures up to $2,000, or $3,000 if the family member is a veteran or is diagnosed with dementia. Caregivers must have federal AGI under $100,000 (joint) or $50,000 (other filers); the family member must live in a private residence and need help with at least two activities of daily living. Eligible expenses include home modifications, equipment, respite care and adult day care. Credits are capped statewide at $1.5 million for state fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27, then $2.5 million.",
    "source": "Nebraska Department of Revenue",
    "category": "policy",
    "significance": "Nebraska's Caregiver Tax Credit provides nonrefundable tax relief of up to $3,000 to assist eligible family caregivers with caregiving expenses.",
    "dois": [],
    "pmids": [],
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      "checked": "2026-10-19",
      "snapshot": "20260710200157",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260710200157/https://revenue.nebraska.gov/caregiver-tax-credit-act",
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  {
    "title": "Cassava Sciences and Its Alzheimer's Drug Are Done. The Damage Lingers.",
    "summary": "Cassava Sciences' simufilam failed both of its Phase 3 trials (RETHINK-ALZ and REFOCUS-ALZ) in nearly 2,000 patients, missing all co-primary, secondary, and biomarker endpoints; the company ended the program. The drug's development had been dogged by allegations of falsified research.",
    "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/cassava-sciences-simufilam-trial-failure/",
    "source": "STAT News",
    "date": "2024-11-25",
    "category": "research",
    "significance": "Closes out a controversial, years-long saga in Alzheimer's drug development and underscores the cost to patients and the field when research-integrity concerns aren't caught earlier.",
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