Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease

Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict, with great accuracy, whether someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease. The test could someday help researchers develop drugs for the degenerative brain disorder. There are no effective drugs to treat Alzheimer's.  And the only way to positively diagnose someone with the disease is to use expensive, high tech brain imaging.  A blood test would make diagnosis much easier. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 525...

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