10th Annual National Memory Screening Day
November 1, 2013
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Memory concerns? Interested in learning about brain health? Take part in this week’s 10th annual National Memory Screening Day.
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F18 Picks Better Participants for Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials
April 28, 2013
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GE has new F18 technology to detect Alzheimer’s plaque. It lets doctors see “how much” Alzheimer’s a person has. Eisai (maker of Aricept®) is working
Seeing Dementia’s Tau Tangles
April 24, 2013
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ARTICLE ON TRACERS + VIDEO ON TAU 2 new PET tracers promise to change the face of diagnosing and researching dementias such as Alzheimer’s. Learn how
F18 Alzheimer’s Tests Approved in Europe
January 20, 2013
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F18 allows doctors to “see” the plaques that cause Alzheimer’s on a PET scan of a living brain. It was approved in the U.S. in
MRI Screens Will Change Dementia Diagnostics in 2013
January 6, 2013
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Can new MRI technology effectively & non-invasively diagnose the type of dementia that is afflicting a person?
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