Gov&#39;t to Pay for Scans to Diagnose Alzheimer&#39;s
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Elderly patients who show signs of Alzheimer&#39;s will be able to get brain scans under the government&#39;s Medicare program, US officials said on Thursday, a step which could lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.
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About 800 older Americans will be asked to lend their brains to science this spring, part of a major government study to track early Alzheimer&#39;s disease.
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GPs are to be given their own budgets to pay for services for their patients.
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US researchers have developed a test to measure the turnover of a key protein involved in Alzheimer's disease, which could lead to better treatments and faster diagnosis.
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Pharmaceuticals take British advisory agency to court to approve Alzheimer's treatment.
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Most asked to undergo a scan as part of a pilot program agreed to do so, but privacy concerns abound.
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In the absence of strong evidence that the scans can tell whether a person has alzheimer's, agency limits the coverage only to some patients.
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The U.S. government insurance plan for the elderly and disabled will pay for doctors to run PET brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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While some people with early-stage Alzheimer&#39;s disease (news - web sites) can drive safely, regular assessments of their driving and memory are the best
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People caring for a loved one  with Alzheimer&#39;s disease benefit not only emotionally but also  physically from a counseling and support program developed at  New York University Medical Center.
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Thousands of gravely ill older people will no longer have to spend their savings or sell their homes to pay for round-the-clock medical care, under government guidelines to be revealed this week.
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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A highly sensitive new test could lead to a different way to diagnose people with Alzheimer's disease, possibly helping find the illness in its early stages when there might be time for treatment.
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Working parents, soldiers and hard-scrabble youths seeking a leg up may soon face a fee up to $80 to take what has historically been a dropout&#39;s life line: The GED test.
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NEW YORK  - Researchers may have hit upon a  strategy to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease -- although  the technique has only been tested in the lab at this point.
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Care for people with dementia must be more co-ordinated with better access to specialist services, a watchdog says.
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New tests involving blood and brain scans can detect symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and brief appraisals of real-life functioning can predict who is likely to develop it, researchers said on Sunday.