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McGill University
Another McGill/JGH breakthrough opens door to early Alzheimer's diagnosis
July 5th, 2009
This press release is available in French. A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital (JGH). Their results were published June 8 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. There is currently no accepted blood test for Alzheimer's, and the diagnosis is usually based on expensive and labour-intensive neurological, neuropsychological and neuroimaging evaluations. Dr. Hyman Schipper and colleagues at the Lady Davis Institute and McGill University utilized a new...
Source: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week (2009-07-05)
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