Finally, a major medical breakthrough!
Health journal Nature Medicine published promising study results of asimple blood test that has the potential to predict whether a healthy person will develop symptoms of dementia within two or three years. If continuously successful, the test has the potential to fill a major gap in strategies to combat brain degeneration, which is thought to show symptoms only at a stage when it’s too late to treat effectively.
From CNN:
Though much work still needs to be done, it is hoped the test will someday be available in doctors offices, since the only methods for predicting Alzheimer’s right now, such as PET scans and spinal taps, are expensive, impractical, often unreliable, and sometimes risky.
“This is a potential game-changer,” said Dr. Howard Federoff, senior author of the report and a neurologist at Georgetown University Medical Center. “My level of enthusiasm is very high.”
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