Study: Blood Test Can Predict Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer's disease within three years.
Researchers in the United States say they have developed a prototype blood test that can tell with 90-percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop Alzheimer’s disease within three years. The test looks for 10 signatures of fatty proteins called…
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