On: Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease

[DoofusOfDeath]

If nothing else, I'd think that having a good test for early diagnosis would help future cure research, for a few reasons:

- Whatever specific thing is being tested becomes a candidate for future interventions.

- It could give researchers a tighter pool of candidates for longitudinal studies.

- As others have mentioned: any treatments that require early intervention have a better chance of working. (Similar to cancer, I imagine.)