From the October 2014 issue of Weill Cornell Medicine's Women's Health Advisor (WHA)
New Tests for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Your eyes and nose may provide information about what is happening in your brain.
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) strikes more than five million Americans, two-thirds of whom are women. One of the major challenges of the disease is early detection. Right now, most diagnoses occur late in its development, when significant brain damage has already occurred. “There is a pressing need for easier, less invasive diagnostic tests that will identify […]