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Date, 2018
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Researchers working on a blood test for Alzheimer's brain protein
Scientists are working on a blood test that may identify people who have high levels of brain beta-amyloid, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease. Currently, beta-amyloid can only be detected in a living brain with a positron emission tomography (PET) scan or by measuring levels in cerebrospinal fluid. Researchers hope that if larger and longer-term studies confirm the test's accuracy, drug developers will have a simple and inexpensive way to identify people at high risk of dementia and recruit them into clinical trials before irreversible brain damage has occurred.

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Alzheimer's disease featured on West Wing Weekly podcast
Alzheimer's Association Chief Public Policy Officer Robert Egge recently was a guest on the West Wing Weekly podcast, which explores each episode of the NBC series and how politics and issues have evolved since the show first aired. During discussion of an episode in which Press Secretary C.J. Cregg visits her father living with Alzheimer's, Egge highlighted research advancements and progress toward making the disease a national priority.
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