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The New Alzheimer’s Plaque Test (and early breast cancer detection)

Among my hundred ques­tions about this enter­prise — notwith­standing the ethics of per­forming clinical trials in hospice patients, as is related in the Times article – is this: does the dye harm the kidneys? As for how much it costs, that’s not said either. Because Alzheimer’s is a fairly common disease and memory loss an even com­moner con­dition, the potential demand for this mar­ketable diag­nostic method might be great. What are we thinking?

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