Blood test could detect Alzheimer's years before symptoms, mouse study suggests

Yahoo! News ^ | Thu, March 18, 2021 | Alexandra Thompson

[nickcarraway]

New research offers fresh hope for diagnosing Alzheimer's via a blood test, potentially years before symptoms emerge.

The memory-robbing disease has no set test, with specialists assessing suspected patients via memory analyses, mental-agility evaluations and brain scans.

The concept of an Alzheimer's blood test is not new, with past studies suggesting biomarkers circulate in a patient's blood before they show signs of the disease.

[Grampa Dave]

We could probably train dogs to smell/detect Alzheimer’s cases before they show up in lab tests.

[Carl Vehse]

"We could probably train dogs to smell/detect Alzheimer’s cases before they show up in lab tests."

Or we could just watch them trip three times going up the stairs.

[IamConservative]

Unless there is a way to prevent the disease with early detection, I’d just as soon not know myself.

[alicewonders]

“Unless there is a way to prevent the disease with early detection, I’d just as soon not know myself.”

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Same here.

[TangledUpInBlue]

My thoughts exactly. Why spend your life worrying about when it’s going to happen.

[gundog]

Yeah. I can’t see an upside for anyone but insurance companies.

[Grampa Dave]

“Or we could just watch them trip three times going up the stairs.”

Biden. probably forgot at least 2 of the 3 trips by the time he got to the stairs.

[1Old Pro]

Why spend your life worrying about when it’s going to happen.

It shouldn't be a detriment. Heck, some people with it get elected to president, it doesn't seem to inhibit greed for power.

[oh8eleven]

mouse study suggests ...

Ten years ago a "mouse study suggested" a cure for tinnitus.
Still waiting.

[Vermont Lt]

Early in the pandemic I read the following quote: “Any good researcher will be able to cure cancer in mice. Curing it in humans has proven more difficult.”

I am encouraged by these tests. I am not holding my breath.

[hanamizu]

Or we could just watch them trip three times going up the stairs.

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Comrade! We have been warned that making sport of Great Leader’s slight misstep might encourage assassination attempts. The proper response to the incident is along the line of “Thank God his reflexes were so acute that he was able to regain his footing on only the third attempt.”

[Carl Vehse]

Just in case, Air Force One Now Equipped With Handicap Parking Pass, according to the Babylon Bee (more truthful than any mainstream media site).

[ConservativeInPA]

Doesn’t everyone know by now that mice cause Alzheimer’s, cancer and every other major disease?

[aimhigh]

And years ago, they said a simple eye test could spot Alzheimer’s. Waiting.

[clearcarbon]

"Ten years ago a "mouse study suggested" a cure for tinnitus.

Still waiting.

Studious mice are notoriously dilatory.

[oh8eleven]

Just another example of the interminable medical research scams to keep the grant money flowing.
I can't think of a single major discovery since the polio vaccine.