In many cases, it's not until memory problems start creeping up that most people learn they have Alzheimer's disease. By then, the disease may already be progressing, leaving limited options for ...

We're now closer to being able to diagnose the most common form of dementia with a simple test. The Food and Drug Administration on May 16 said it cleared the first blood test for Alzheimer's disease.

The FDA recently cleared the Lumipulse blood test for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in people 55 and over with memory loss. The noninvasive Lumipulse blood test measures the levels of two ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, accessible and inexpensive than other existing tests. When you purchase through ...

The early signs of Alzheimer's disease—more frequent memory loss, increased confusion—can be difficult to detect, often delaying diagnosis. That could change with an inexpensive and noninvasive blood ...

The earlier Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed, the better the outcomes; however, it can be hard to diagnose the disease in its earliest stages. The United States Food and Drug Administration ...

A new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease can accurately detect people with early symptoms, research suggests. Experts from the Mayo Clinic in the US have provided further evidence that blood tests can ...

Mayo Clinic researchers validated an FDA-approved blood test that diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease with 95% sensitivity and 82% specificity in outpatient settings. The test offers a less invasive and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Bindu Paul, an associate professor of pharmacology, psychiatry and neuroscience ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been a diagnosis that arrives only after memory begins to fray, by which time brain damage is ...