Forbes
By Lisa LaMotta
Scientists are working hard to develop a new test for Alzheimer's disease. But once they have such a diagnostic, will there be any reason to use it outside of clinical trials?
"What do you do with these people once you diagnose them -- apart from frighten them?" asks Mark Smith, a professor at Case Western Reserve University who has been an influential thinker when it comes to the disease.
Five million people in the United States suffer from the crippling neurological disease. This week, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania said they have developed a test that uses levels of certain proteins in spinal fluid, combined with the presence or absence of mutations in a particular gene, to predict who will get Alzheimer's.
Looking at all those different factors appears to pinpoint people who will....read the whole article
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