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Quest Alzheimer's Blood Test No Longer Marketed Directly to Patients

Amyloid AD-Detect test not offered on Quest's consumer platform

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Viagra and Alzheimer's; Migraine Consensus Statement; FDA Updates Drug Guidance

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Trump-Obama Doc's Bad Behavior; Alzheimer's Drug Delayed; Death After Testicle Kick

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 麻豆传媒 staff

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Lucid Moments in Late Dementia; Seizure Dogs and Epilepsy; Wildfire Smoke Effects

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Blood-Based Biomarkers to Help Screen, Diagnose Alzheimer's

Uncertainty about biomarkers in clinical use remains

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Leaky Blood Vessels and Long COVID; BCG Vaccine and Alzheimer's; New CTE Subtype

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

CAR-T for Autoimmune Disease; Methods of Illegal Opioid Overdose

Also in TTHealthWatch: effectiveness of telemedicine abortion

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Alzheimer's Supplements Fail Compared With Generic Drugs

Prescription galantamine drugs were labeled accurately, but dietary supplements were not

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Alzheimer's Biomarkers Show Specific Changes 20 Years Before Diagnosis

CSF and imaging markers changed in a temporal sequence

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Herpes-Dementia Link; How COVID Affects the Brain; FDA to Decide on Duchenne Drug

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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When Does Brain Death Occur? Parkinson's-Paraquat Links; AI Boosts ARIA Detection

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Dementia Predicted 10 Years Before Diagnosis

Blood proteins identified those at risk for all-cause, Alzheimer's, or vascular dementia

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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Tied to Less Alzheimer's Risk

Large U.K. study tracked health records of 270,000 men

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Greco-Roman Dementia; Prion Disease Vigilance; ChatGPT and Alzheimer's

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Even With Alzheimer's Pathology, Healthy Lifestyles May Preserve Cognition

More data support the idea of "cognitive reserve"

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Controversial Alzheimer's Drug Abandoned

Biogen will stop developing and selling aducanumab

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GLP-1 Drugs Tame Brain Inflammation; Novel Painkiller Succeeds; Headache as Metaphor

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscienc

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Alzheimer's May Be Transmissible in Rare Circumstances

Cases tied to long-discontinued childhood medical procedure

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Unusual Visual Symptoms and Alzheimer's; Infections and Dementia; Head Trauma and MS

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows High Diagnostic Accuracy

Commercial ptau-217 assay reduced confirmatory testing by about 80%

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Transparent Brain Implant; Neurology Pay Models; What Predicts Cognitive Reversion

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Face Blindness Is Not Always Permanent

Largest study to date looks at inability to recognize familiar faces

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What Super-Agers Show; Epstein-Barr and Early MS; Five Variants of Alzheimer's

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

Open Blood-Brain Barrier for Alzheimer's Treatment?; Managing TMD

Also in TTHealthWatch: IV drug for early atrial fibrillation

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Dementia Drugs Seen Lowering Risk for Macular Degeneration

But not by very much or very quickly, VA analysis finds

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Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise

Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels

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Novel Alzheimer's Trials Evaluate Senolytics, Semaglutide, CRISPR, and More

Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond: "There is so much more to be done"

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Midlife Alzheimer's Biomarker; How Measles Spread in the Brain; MS and HIV

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Dementia and Estrogen; Case Report on Fatality After Lecanemab; MRI-Based Brain Age

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Twins and Dementia; CRISPR and Alzheimer's; BTK Inhibitor Fails in MS Trials

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs

Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans

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Personality Predictors of Dementia; Parkinson's Blood Test; Klotho in Alzheimer's

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Coronary Heart Disease by Age 45 Linked With Subsequent Dementia

All-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia risks elevated

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Alzheimer's Tied to Military Service; Long COVID Sleepiness; NurOwn Tries Again

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Cognitive Scores Improve With Personal Coaching

Trial shows better outcomes for people at high dementia risk

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Alzheimer's Drug Trials Should Report Effect Sizes, Researchers Say

How effective are anti-amyloid treatments?

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Alzheimer's Vaccines Are Back; Streamlining Prior Authorization; Rare APOE Variant

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Proteins Predict Signs of Alzheimer's Disease

Subclinical health indicators tied to markers of Alzheimer's and neurodegeneration

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Hippocampal Atrophy Might Not Signal Alzheimer's Disease

Measuring tau and hippocampus in addition to amyloid may improve Alzheimer's diagnosis

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Gantenerumab Failed to Slow Cognitive Decline in Early Alzheimer's

Amyloid plaque levels went down, but not enough for clinical benefit

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