An experimental drug called florbetaben may help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's disease earlier in some people with memory problems.
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Drug May Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Earlier
FRIDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) — An advisory panel’s recommendation that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve a new chemical that can highlight the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s in brain scans may one day help doctors diagnose the neurodegenerative disease, experts said Friday.
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When doctors diagnose a person with Alzheimer’s disease, they are using criteria adopted in 1984. A lot has changed since then. Now many scientists say after two and a half decades of research into the debilitating disease, the criteria are in need of an extreme makeover.
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