Alzheimer; News from the web:
USA today provides a nice write up about the various tools for diagnosing Alzheimer early and easily that are under development.
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Category Archives: Detection
Bloodtest will confirm Alzheimer three years in advance
Alzheimer; News from the web:
A great step forward. Now we have a test that can predict three years in advance that you will get the disease. This will be a new chapter in research and may eventually lead to other great things.
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Work your brain and delay Alzheimer by 10 years
Alzheimer; News from the web:
A study found that if you are prone to Alzheimer but have stayed actively engaged with your brain in several activities, you can postpone the dreaded disease by almost a decade!
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The facts and the fiction about Alzheimer
Alzheimer; News from the web:
An overview of the facts and myths surrounding Alzheimer. The importance of the right and accurate information cannot be underlined enough. Most of the medication and therapies that have been developed are all about delaying the nasty consequences of the disease and that will work most effectively when detected early enough.
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New Alzheimer diagnostic drug
Alzheimer; News from the web:
The new drug, called Vizamyl, is a radioactive dye that is used along with brain scans to detect the presence of beta amyloid, the toxic protein that builds up in the brains of those with Alzheimer’s disease. It also goes by the name flutemetamol F 18.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Many patients with a newly identified subtype of Alzheimer’s disease are misdiagnosed and don’t receive proper treatment, researchers report. They analyzed the brains of more than 1,800 Alzheimer’s patients and found that 11 percent of them had this subtype, called “hippocampal sparing Alzheimer’s disease.”
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