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Test teen football players for Alzheimer's gene?

Should high school kids get a genetic test for the risk for Alzheimer’s disease before they’re allowed to play football? Two prominent scientists who study both Alzheimer’s and  the traumatic brain injury suffered by some football players raise that ethically charged question in an editorial out Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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New plan to fight Alzheimer’s

  The U.S. government has launched a new website and is pouring millions of dollars into two large studies examining whether or not a drug can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s among patients who are predisposed to the devastating disease. NBC’s Robert Bazell reports.