Student with Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke Vincent D’Anniballe discusses a new study that shows that a nasal swab could help detect Alzheimer’s earlier

Alzheimer’s disease affects millions of people worldwide, yet the illness is hardest to catch at the very beginning, when new treatments may work best. In a new study, Duke Health researchers show that a quick, outpatient nasal swab can pick up early biological changes linked to Alzheimer’s, even before thinking and memory problems appear. Vincent D’Anniballe, the lead researcher in the study, discuss their findings with Jeff Hamlin