As I mention every now and again, diagnostics is important. Catch any disease very early on – even those that are currently untreatable in late stages – and often something can be done to at the very least delay progression. SFGate reports on a new test for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease: “By the time unambiguous symptoms emerge, Parkinson’s has usually been on the attack for years, destroying 60 percent or more of the special cells in the brain that control voluntary movement. … Now scientists at drug giant Pfizer think they have stumbled on a simple test that is both sensitive enough to detect subtle biological changes due to Parkinson’s and specific enough to avoid false alarms: analyzing how people speak.”
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/07/financial0941EST0047.DTL&type=health
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