New Medicare Coverage for PET Scans for Alzheimer’s in 2025: What You Need to Know
Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated ...
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New Criteria Developed for Appropriate Use of Amyloid, Tau PET
(HealthDay News) — Appropriate use criteria (AUC) for the use of amyloid and tau positron emission tomography (PET) have been issued by the Alzheimer’s Association and the Society for Nuclear Medicine ...
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Nondemented, Very Elderly Subjects Have a High Prevalence of Positive Amyloid Scans
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly. Although the prevalence of AD increases with age, studies have indicated that a number of elderly patients have AD ...
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At Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, Plasma Tau Was the Star
At the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) meeting, held January 15-17, researchers focused on new techniques—all based on tau and ...
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Alzheimer's research presents new strategy for amyloid diagnostics
Meanwhile, patients with amyloid values of less than 5.5 in their CSF predominantly had PET scans that showed up as abnormal as well—meaning they tested positive for Alzheimer's with a high ...
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Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease in the era of anti-amyloid therapies
The need for early, accurate AD diagnosis has increased due to the recent positive phase III trials and the subsequent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of anti-amyloid monoclonal ...