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Receiving a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is one of the scariest pieces of news a person can face. While other medical diagnoses carry bad news for your health , a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s poses a unique threat to a person’s sense of self.
The reason doctors want to detect these conditions early on—and the reason that insurers are willing to pay for it—is that we can lower the risk of disease progression. Early detection of breast cancer? Get treated with anti-hormonal medication and surgery before the cancer spreads. Heartbeat looking abnormal? Improve your heart health with medications, diet and exercise. High blood sugar? Change your diet and exercise, and, more recently, try to get your insurer to pay for Ozempic or Mounjaro.
But change is coming—and with it, challenges and opportunities for businesses interested in diagnostics., the first Alzheimer’s diagnostic—a radiolabeled antibody that in combination with a high-tech brain scan could determine if a living person has an accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain.the expensive scans—not because they didn’t work but because they didn’t matter.
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