March 10, 2014
The New York Daily News (3/10, Landau) reports that researchers say they have “developed a revolutionary” blood “test that can predict if someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease.”

CNN (3/10, Cohen) reports that according to the study published in the journal Nature Medicine, even “though much work still needs to be done, it is hoped the test will someday be available in doctors’ offices, since the only methods for predicting Alzheimer’s right now, such as PET scans and spinal taps, are expensive, impractical, often unreliable and sometimes risky.” For the study, researchers “drew blood from hundreds of healthy people over age 70 living near” Irvine, CA and Rochester, NY. Five years after the blood draw, 28 of the participants had developed mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s.
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