Banner Alzheimer’s Foundation has received a $10 million charitable investment from the family of the late J. Orin Edson for innovative dementia care and caregiver support for patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders.

When Valley entrepreneur David Walling was starting the nonprofit Be Kind Project last year to support various acts of kindness, he didn’t know he would soon be supporting his wife in the fight of her life. At just 36 years old and with no family history, Jessica Walling had just been diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Read more about the Wallings and the $1.25M breast cancer patient assistance fund they have created to help other patients along their breast cancer journey. #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and Banner Sun Health Research Institute here in Arizona, Lund University in Sweden, the drugmaker Eli Lilly and others, have identified a new blood test showing remarkable promise in detecting Alzheimer’s disease as early as two decades before symptoms appear.