Reston, VA—A new study has determined that approximately three percent of all bone scan patients have markers of cardiac amyloidosis, which can lead to heart failure and increased mortality. Published ...

A new study finds that using amyloid positron emission tomography scans can slightly reduce hospitalizations in people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. “In the context of the increased ...

PET scans can detect amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, which are often early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But they’re not enough on their own to make a diagnosis. Alzheimer’s disease is ...

Clinical care for Alzheimer’s disease is undergoing a sea change. The latest wave? Eleven years after the first amyloid PET tracer was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the scans will ...

At first glance, it might appear that better access to so-called amyloid-PET scans could compensate for some of the racial inequities in Alzheimer’s disease, as Linda Goler Blount called for in a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers analyzed more than 10,000 PET scans of patients from the IDEAS study. Measurement of Centiloids from ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has revised its policy permitting multiple uses of amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans, a non-invasive brain scan crucial for ...

Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Friday lifted curbs on reimbursement of a non-invasive imaging test called amyloid PET used to diagnose Alzheimer's, ending a once-per-lifetime limitation ...

A recent study led by a team of researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examining aging mice has provided what is believed to be the first evidence that amyloid beta ...

A recent study led by a team of researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examining aging mice has provided what is believed to be the first evidence that amyloid beta ...