Alzheimer’s disease is a notoriously difficult condition to diagnose, often only being confirmed at autopsy. The disease affects millions of people, but current tests such as PET scans and CSF samples are expensive, time-consuming, and invasive. A paradigm-shifting test for Alzheimer’s has been developed by a joint Japanese-Australian team which screens for specific biomarkers in […]

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The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study examining cases of sudden cardiac arrest in both competitive and non-competitive sports that occurred in Canada from 2008-2014 in order to determine whether pre-participation screening may have helped in identifying at-risk athletes.   The study used a registry of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred […]

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