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Promising Blood Test for Alzheimer's
The online edition of the British journal Nature Medicine has a study of a blood test for Alzheimer's disease, developed at Stanford. The test lights up if 18 specific molecules are present in a blood sample. Using samples of stored blood, the test proved 90% accurate in identifying people who had been diagnosed with the disease by other methods. It was also 87% accurate in distinguishing samples from people who do not have Alzheimer's but exhibit some other form of dementia. The numbers of samples involved were small — SFGate's writeup has some details. The Mercury News's article says the test's developers want to begin selling it to laboratories in 2008, for which FDA approval would not be required. They hope to get FDA approval for general use by 2009.
Would the pun "You have alzheimers but you just don't know it yet!" be considered poor taste in this context?
Monstar L
I always ask my dad "Do you remember the last time you were tested for Alzheimer's?"
It pisses him off...
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
...about Alzheimers is all the new interesting stories on /. every time I refresh.
(sadly, the same cannot be said about the goatse comments)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
An old man goes to the doctor. The doctor says, "I have bad news and Really Bad News. The bad news is you have Alzheimer's. The Really Bad News is that you have cancer and will die horribly within the month." The old man thinks for a minute and says, "Well, at least I don't have Alzheimer's!"
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.