{"id":824715,"date":"2026-08-24T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824715\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:40:08","slug":"fda-approves-a-blood-test-to-detect-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824715\/","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":824716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-824715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}