{"id":748599,"date":"2026-08-24T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748599\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:04:07","slug":"fda-approves-a-blood-test-to-detect-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748599\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves a blood test to detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"M3NLXSWO4RHRNN4TN6L2MKVSHU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new blood test for Alzheimer\u2019s that can detect a presence in the brain of amyloid plaque, which has been considered a key indicator of the disease.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QLT4QJLKKVHLTMVRVPTHIK4JDM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The test is not meant for routine screening but can be pivotal for a diagnosis when cognitive problems are causing doctors to suspect Alzheimer\u2019s. Roche, the test\u2019s manufacturer, announced the FDA\u2019s decision Monday. The test was developed in collaboration with Eli Lilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new blood test for Alzheimer\u2019s that can detect a presence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}