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PET Scans That Identify Amyloid Plaques Influence Care A study published in JAMA in April found that giving health-care providers the results of positron emission tomography (PET) scans that identified amyloid plaques in the brain improved diagnosis and medical management for 60 percent of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Before the use of these scans, amyloid […]