7/19/2015 – Saliva seen as possible diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease

Your spit might just reveal whether you’re a likely candidate for developing Alzheimer’s disease.

That at least is the hope of Canadian researchers whose study suggests that analyzing certain chemical compounds in saliva could provide a cheap, noninvasive way to learn whether the brain has begun to undergo the changes that culminate in loss of memory and cognitive function.

Read the full article at The Washington Post.