{"id":221827,"date":"2025-09-13T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/clinical-trial-to-transform-alzheimers-diagnosis-launched-in-uk"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:08:18","slug":"clinical-trial-to-transform-alzheimers-diagnosis-launched-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/clinical-trial-to-transform-alzheimers-diagnosis-launched-in-uk","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Trial To Transform Alzheimer\u2019s Diagnosis Launched in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clinical-trial-to-transform-alzheimers-diagnosis-launched-in-uk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK researchers on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/sep\/uk-trial-launches-transform-alzheimers-diagnosis-simple-blood-test\">announced the trial<\/a> of a blood test for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, which it is hoped will transform the diagnosis of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University College London (UCL) will assess whether the test could improve the accuracy of diagnosis from 70 percent to over 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Medics say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-fastball-test-could-assess-alzheimers-risk-in-just-3-minutes\">early diagnosis is critical<\/a> with Alzheimer\u2019s, which is the most common cause of dementia, as the earlier treatment is started, the more effective it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK researchers on Wednesday announced the trial of a blood test for Alzheimer\u2019s, which it is hoped will transform the diagnosis of the disease. Researchers at University College London (UCL) will assess whether the test could improve the accuracy of diagnosis from 70 percent to over 90 percent. Medics say early diagnosis is critical with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}