One of the most frightening things about Alzheimer's disease is how difficult it is to diagnose early. Now, University of ...

Imagine a simple blood test that could reveal if you’re at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, years before symptoms become severe. A new study shows that this could be a reality. For those at risk, this ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared marketing for a new blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease in people who are already exhibiting symptoms. This new test is the first blood ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Amyloid plaques (depicted in orange) are a central feature of Alzheimer's disease in the brain. A ...

Scientists at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have identified simpler and less invasive methods to improve ...

Quest Diagnostics will soon begin offering a new blood-based in-vitro diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s. The disease affects nearly 7 million Americans. The Lumipulse G pTau 217/β-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma ...

It has been shown to detect the disease even before the person begins experiencing symptoms, researchers say. "The tested blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease with high accuracy even in real-life ...

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 ...

The test—developed in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Co.—does not diagnose Alzheimer’s but is designed to rule out the ...

A new blood-based test reflected Alzheimer's tau tangle pathology. The assay measured a new plasma tau species known as endogenously cleaved MTBR-tau243. The test distinguished various stages of ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. The FDA recently cleared, for the first time ...