The Choice Dementia Takes Away

Your body was built for a world that no longer exists — and that mismatch might be making you sick. 

When the family of a longtime patient invited me to her funeral, I found myself wrestling with a question I never addressed in medical school. 

New Alzheimer's blood tests are accurate, available, and increasingly advertised — but for healthy people, a positive result is rarely useful. 

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