The past few months have not been good for Alzheimer's research. Trials of two drugs and one vaccine have flopped. This was the dour background to the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, held in Chicago this week.rnThe conference did, however, bring some encouraging news. John Ronald, of the University of Western Ontario, and his colleagues have managed to identify the brain plaques associated with the disease using magnetic resonance imaging. Previously, Alzheimer's could be distinguished with certainty from other dementias only by post-mortem examination.
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