A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Researchers tested whether tiny ...

Simple finger-prick blood samples that can be collected at home and mailed to laboratories without refrigeration or prior processing can help detect Alzheimer's disease biomarkers accurately, ...

Alzheimer’s disease affects millions worldwide—but confirming a diagnosis is far from simple. Doctors currently rely on costly brain scans or invasive spinal fluid tests to identify the ...

More than a third of Brits with dementia are undiagnosed A FINGER-PRICK blood test that you carry out yourself could one day diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Experiments suggest the simple check is 86 ...

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A new blood test that detects Alzheimer’s by taking a sample from a finger prick could diagnose the disease at early stages long before symptoms become severe, a new Europe-wide study found. The new ...

At home blood tests could soon be used to diagnose dementia, revolutionising dementia care and treatment access. Despite new drugs for the memory-robbing condition being developed, around a third of ...

UK households are receiving letters on doormats containing finger-prick tests. A pioneering new study, led by Professor Jane Entwistle, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Science and ...

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