Rare diseases: improving access, care and diagnosis People with a rare diseases face challenges as such diseases can take time to be diagnosed. Patients can go through years of testing and mis diagnosis before seeing a specialist who knows what care they require. About 5% of rare diseases have therapies with few cures, at best…
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
Small scale study shows potential positive results A small scale study from University of Montreal looked at using MRIs as well as cognitive testing as a method of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in patients presenting with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The study consisted of 45 people with MCI and a control group of 20 others…
