Cheap blood tests that could spot Alzheimer’s early are set to be given to more than a thousand adults in an effort to ...

An international trial involving 1,000 volunteers will aim to detect biomarkers associated with the condition.

If a large new trial delivers as hoped, a simple finger-prick could one day help flag Alzheimer's risk long before symptoms ...

There are indications that a simple finger-prick blood test could, in the future, detect Alzheimer's disease long before the ...

A new finger-prick test for Alzheimer's disease has shown similar accuracy to traditional venous blood sampling techniques. The corresponding study was presented on October 30th at the Clinical Trials ...

Jab a finger, draw up a spot of blood with a test strip, let it dry, then mail it off to your doctor. Could testing for Alzheimer’s disease become that simple? Quite possibly. Modern immunoassays are ...

The findings of the study published in Nature Medicine journal showed that the test helped identify disease-related changes with 86 per cent accuracy. Just like diabetes, you will now be able to ...

An international trial is testing whether a simple finger-prick blood test can diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and more easily.