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...least they couldn't until now. A new, noninvasive brain-imaging test may be able to identify Alzheimer's in those who are still living. The test, a chemical tracer followed by a PET scan, reveals the telltale plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's, even in the disease's earliest stages. A word of caution: the test has so far worked on only nine patients...
...full-color exhibit by HSI in the Science Center—tracing the Israeli conflict from its earliest beginnings in Zionism to the 1967 Six Day War to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords—has been on display throughout the week, and HSI will host a series of speakers and movies scheduled for tonight and tomorrow...
Each year more than 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with congestive heart failure--a condition in which a weakened heart can't pump as much blood as the body needs. Drugs like beta-blockers help stabilize many patients in the earliest stages of the disease. But there aren't a lot of options for folks in the later stages. Heart transplants are one solution, but they're in short supply. The new AbioCor artificial heart shows promise, but it's still experimental; last week doctors reported that Robert Tools, the first recipient, had suffered a stroke...
University officials stress that Summers’ initiative is only in its earliest fact-finding stages. Harvard’s graduate schools are pulling together data on current aid and explaining their unmet needs in response to a questionnaire sent out by the central administration...
...aches--in the early days of the infection. Physicians would be quick to suspect anthrax in anyone who was vaccinated against flu and still developed fever and chills. That would give them a better chance to identify any new victims of terror while their infection was still in its earliest, most treatable stages...