3/9/2014 – Alzheimer’s Blood Test Raises Ethical Questions

An experimental blood test can identify people in their 70s who are likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease within two or three years. The test is accurate more than 90 percent of the time, scientists reported Sunday in Nature Medicine.

But because there is still no way to halt Alzheimer’s, Federoff says, people considering the test would have to decide whether they are prepared to get results that “could be life-altering.”

Read the full article at National Public Radio (NPR).