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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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 ...
New test could detect Alzheimer’s sign a decade before it shows up on brain scans
Alzheimer’s disease — which affects an estimated 7 million Americans — is notoriously difficult to detect, especially in its ...
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s: Two experts on why new studies are encouraging
These various tests are at different stages of validation – assuring they’re accurate across many different populations. And, for each protein, there are several different met ...
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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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Roche’s Alzheimer’s test shows high negative predictive value
The panel also had a NPV of 96.2% based on a 23.4% prevalence of amyloid positivity according to positron emission tomography ...
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Plaques Spur Spread of Tangles by Sending Synapses into Overdrive
and tau-PET scans from 69 cognitively normal controls who had amyloid in their brain, and 140 amyloid-positive people who spanned the AD clinical spectrum. First, they asked if regional amyloid ...
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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 ...