Alzheimer's diagnosis

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Doctors Better at Detecting Early Alzheimer's: Then What?

Patients demand to know, but no treatment is available

(Newser) - The good news on Alzheimer's is that doctors are getting better at figuring out who's likely to get the disease years—even decades—in advance of its onset. The bad news is that with no treatment available, the diagnosis has no medical value to the patient, and likely results in...

30-Second Alzheimer's Test in the Works

Could predict risk decades before symptoms show

(Newser) - A new test could predict a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear—and it only takes half a minute, the Daily Telegraph reports. A London scientist identified a group of otherwise healthy people in their 40s whose brain scans revealed tiny lesions in the memory hub,...

New Test Predicts Alzheimer’s

Three markers in spinal fluid may help in development of treatment

(Newser) - The presence of certain biomarkers in spinal fluid can predict the development of Alzheimer's disease, even in patients who display no symptoms, according to breakthrough research being published tomorrow. "This is what everyone is looking for, the bull’s eye of perfect predictive accuracy," a doctor not connected...

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