The NY Times has an article on a promising technique that may allow physicians to accurately diagnosis the presence of Alzheimer's disease in living patients (the "gold standard" for diagnosing Alzhemier's is brain autopsies). With the use of a new dye that appears to selectively stain for plaques, it appears that PET scans may be able to distinguish true Alzheimer's cases from non-Alzheimer's cases (e.g., people with memory problem but on autopsy show no plaques). The results are tentative and will be presented at an upcoming conferece; for more details see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/health/research/24scans.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3282 or send a blank email to leave-3282-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
