The UK's Cambridge Cognition says it has signed a co-marketing deal with US drug major Pfizer and Eisai UK for its CANTAB cognitive screening tests, which provide early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Notably, they can differentiate between memory loss caused by dementia and that caused by depression which is often confused with dementia, according to Cambridge Cognition.
This will be the first time that the CANTAB tests will be widely available through the UK's National Health Service, although there have been a number of successful trials in both memory clinics and general practice surgeries.
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