Newswise — DURHAM, N.C. — Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer\’s disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36-month follow-up study led by Duke Medicine.

The national, multicenter study confirms earlier findings suggesting that identifying silent beta-amyloid plaque build-up in the brain could help guide care and treatment decisions for patients at risk for Alzheimer\’s. The findings appeared online March 11, 2014, in Molecular Psychiatry, a Nature Publishing Group journal.

HATCHET RUN, NEW YORK – In his quiet town in upstate New York, Bob Filmore watched the first Democratic Party debate of the 2016 presidential primary season, and he was \”really impressed\” with Hillary Clinton\’s \”slick mastery of politics.\” Filmore, a Democrat since the early 1990\’s, told our reporter that the one character trait he\’s desperate…