Alzheimer's Dementia: "To Screen, Or Not To Screen"
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Alzheimer's Dementia: "To Screen, Or Not To Screen"


A short piece in today's Washington Post about the potential problems and potential benefits of broad screenings for dementia of Alzheimer's disease in the general population of aging persons:

To Screen, or Not to Screen
Experts Debate Mass Testing For Alzheimer's Disease
By Alicia Ault
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 4, 2007; Page HE01

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