Richard Isaacson's team aims to develop an at-home, fingerprint-based "cholesterol test for the brain" to assess Alzheimer's risk for less than $150.

The current U.S. medical system is a "sick care system" because doctors are reimbursed for treating symptoms in sick people, not for preventing disease.

Neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease begin silently in the body decades before symptoms become apparent.

An NIH-funded randomized controlled trial showed that compliant users of the free software at retainyourbrain.com reduced their Alzheimer's risk by 16 percentage points in 6 months through behavior ch...