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Healthcare

How might the discovery of plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's in middle-aged people affect health policies and community support programs?

Alzheimer's disease has a long preclinical phase in which neuropathological changes, such as amyloid β (Aβ) and tau pathology, accumulate over many years.1 This preclinical phase provides an opportunity for earlier disease detection and interventions to prevent or delay dementia. Emerging blood-based biomarkers provide a minimally invasive approach to assess Alzheimer's disease-related pathology and show promising diagnostic and prognostic value in symptomatic individuals.2 However, performance of these biomarkers in cognitively unimpaired, middle-aged populations remains unclear

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Geopolitics

What should countries do about ships carrying oil from Russia?

France and its partners intercepted a Russian oil tanker circumventing sanctions in the Atlantic over the weekend, President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post on Monday. The Tagor was detained Sunday morning in international waters with the help of Britain and other partners, the French president said

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