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Since there's no cure for Alzheimer's disease, researchers are focused on ways to identify early signs and create treatments before dementia sets in.

The Senate is set to consider legislation that could give patients access to more options for drug treatments that derive from biological organisms. The drugs in question - which are interchangeable with brand-name options - are not yet on the market. But supporters of the bill say they could be soon and they want Hoosiers to be able to get them.

Bitterly cold temperatures and storms have already caused at least 15 deaths in recent days. Authorities remind everyone that it's important to be prepared and to stay inside if you can. That advice may seem obvious, but people do continue to take risks.

The application uses a new concept called social micro-volunteering to provide answers to questions for unpaid caregivers.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will begin removing lead-tainted soil later this month from as many as 100 homes around the site of an old industrial smelter in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that registered sex offenders on parole would no longer be able to sign up for Pokémon Go and other Internet-enabled games as conditions of their sentence.

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule earlier this week that attempts to help employers decide if a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, but reactions are mixed among groups in the state.

Federal officials said Tuesday that 35 years of legal protection and habitat restoration efforts had brought the interior least tern back from the brink of extinction.

The new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the opioid epidemic is far from over, and public health officials say fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that is much more deadly than other opioids — is largely to blame.

Pharmacists are the latest members of the medical field in demand to fill a rising number of job openings.