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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of news about Alzheimer's disease and dementia from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about Alzheimer's disease or dementia, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, Alzheimer's disease and dementia took a similar share of news coverage in 2019 and 2025 (6.92 and 6.94 articles per 10,000), with a high of 8.29 per 10,000 in 2023 and a low of 6.23 in 2020.
Basis: Annual matched articles (103,683 in total) divided by all articles in the index for the same year, complete years 2019–2025.
July 2023, the month in which United States regulators granted lecanemab traditional approval, was the month in which Alzheimer's disease and dementia took their largest share of global news between January 2019 and July 2026, at 11.14 articles per 10,000.
Basis: Monthly matched articles per 10,000 news articles, every month from January 2019 to July 2026.
Of news articles about Alzheimer's disease and dementia carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 31.5% were negative in tone and 66.8% positive, against 33.6% and 56.8% across all news in the same index.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.7% of sampled articles carry a label.
A machine-assigned priority rating placed 76.7% of news articles about Alzheimer's disease and dementia at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, 1.8 times the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per article; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Caregiver support for people with Alzheimer's disease was assigned to 4.97% of themed news articles about Alzheimer's disease and dementia between January 2023 and July 2026 (1,581 articles), making it the fourth most frequent theme after ageing and gerontology (19.61%), epidemiology and disease control (7.03%) and nutrition and diet (6.66%).
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; share of articles in the window that carry at least one theme.
Charts and maps
Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16,431 | 61.17% | 1.26 |
| United Kingdom | 3,763 | 14.01% | 2.4 |
| Australia | 883 | 3.29% | 1.53 |
| Canada | 648 | 2.41% | 1.12 |
| India | 516 | 1.92% | 0.15 |
| China | 400 | 1.49% | 0.57 |
| Sweden | 378 | 1.41% | 6.43 |
| Japan | 294 | 1.09% | 1.03 |
| France | 275 | 1.02% | 0.52 |
| Spain | 250 | 0.93% | 0.95 |
| Germany | 217 | 0.81% | 0.69 |
| New Zealand | 205 | 0.76% | 1.18 |
| Singapore | 198 | 0.74% | 0.83 |
| Norway | 183 | 0.68% | 3.35 |
| Ireland | 153 | 0.57% | 0.79 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "alzheimer" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/alzheimers/