Test For Early Alzheimer's In Late Development

"It's not unreasonable," Nixon said, but it's too early to tell whether that approach would work.

Inverness makes the Home Check consumer test for abuse of illegal and prescription drugs, plus tests for doctors and hospitals to determine pregnancy, fertility, cholesterol levels and early stage bladder cancer.

The institute was founded by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller in memory of his mother, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, who died of Alzheimer's disease.

More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, a number growing steadily as the population ages.

Early symptoms such as trouble recalling recent events or where keys are worsen to being unable to recognize loved ones, losing all sense of time and place, wandering and physical aggression.

Alzheimer's is one of the hottest areas of research in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with companies trying to develop treatments that would actually stop or reverse the course of the disease.

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