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Should Medicare Cover the Cost of Brain Imaging Tests for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis?

I’m at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Boston this week, and one of the most discussed topics is the power of brain imaging tests to detect amyloid beta protein in the brain, one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging tests can identify amyloid beta deposits in… Read More »

The Pros and Cons of Amyvid for Amyloid Beta Imaging

A topic that received a lot of attention at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine update on Alzheimer’s research was the use of Eli Lilly’s Amyvid for detection of amyloid beta deposits in the brain, one of the physical signatures of Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Gil Rabinovici, MD, a physician and researcher at… Read More »