Safeguards needed to prevent discrimination of early Alzheimer's patients in the workplace

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

Despite the emergence of new tools that can diagnose Alzheimer's earlier, no effective interventions have been identified to stop the progression of the disease. A new report tackles the ethical and logistical challenges of safely and effectively communicating a diagnosis of pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease in light of the gulf between diagnosis and treatment.

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