Sniffing out Alzheimer's

Sniffing Out Alzheimer's: A study at New York's Columbia University suggests that a simple scratch-and-sniff test may he p doctors identify patients with Alzheimer's disease. The inability to identify 10 specific odors--strawberry, smoke, soap menthol, clove pineapple, natural gas lilac, lemon and leather--clearly predicted who would go on to develop Alzheimer's.

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