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Simple blood tests for Alzheimer's disease have hit the market, representing a potentially powerful tool to help diagnose the devastating illness. But the tests are stirring debate on scientific and ethical questions.
Alzheimer's is frequently misdiagnosed, especially in the early stages
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill scrambled Monday to finalize and pass a $10 billion COVID-19 response package that will likely be less than half the amount that President Biden demanded.
The wind-down of the uninsured program is among the first concrete casualties of a decision by Congress this month to exclude about $15 billion in pandemic relief from a large spending plan adopted for other parts of the government and the Ukraine war.
Originally published on January 27, 2021 6:19 am It’s going to take about a week for the state’s lab to answer an urgent question. “Can we take some more proactive and aggressive action [against the more contagious COVID-19 variant] and really control these clusters that we're currently seeing?” Susan Ringler-Cerniglia, a Washtenaw County Health Department spokesperson, said Monday. “Or is, in fact, the variant already circulating more than we've detected?” The answer may depend on a batch of 350 test samples collected over the weekend in Washtenaw County, where so far 13 cases ...