RE:New study of Retina shows Start of Alzheimersgordon6 wrote: CTV National News last night and CTV Ottawa news @ 6:99 tonight speak about
latest study and say a Canadia company is involved. Could this be ADK?
Has anyone seen this on the news? Gord
Saw the same news last night...looks like this company is in the same area as us...biggest difference is we are already FDA APPROVED CARA ...We need more coverage in the rest of Canada like CTV story on ADK ...DR AND CARDIO ...etc... Meanwhile in Canada, a Montreal-based company called Optina Diagnostics believes they have developed another test for detecting Alzheimer’s via a relatively simple, but somewhat different, type of retinal examination. The company, which is currently conducting clinical trials in collaboration with McGill University in Montreal and Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, is hoping to receive regulatory approval for its test in 2019.
The development of such quick, inexpensive and non-invasive eye tests are welcome news to Alzheimer Society of Canada CEO Pauline Tardif.
“Any disease modifying therapies that might be developed in the future will be most effective at the very, very early stages of the disease,” she told CTV News. “And if we can have… diagnostic tools such as this through the retina, that’s really exciting.”
With a report from CTV Medical Correspondent Avis Favaro and senior producer Elizabeth St. Philip