Diagnosing patients will be easier for the staff at the Derry Medical Center outpatient offices at 6 Buttrick Road due to a new mobile PET scan machine.

The way in which brains shrink in those who develop Alzheimer’s disease follows no specific or uniform pattern, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and Radboud University in the Netherlands.

Dementia is the biggest health challenge facing the UK’s ... on early diagnosis and there are concerns the NHS isn’t prepared for providing the PET scans and lumbar punctures that will be needed to ...

About a third of the participants also underwent a PET (positron emission tomography) brain scan to measure deposits of tau and beta amyloid, two proteins which cause Alzheimer's disease, the most ...