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Parkinson's Disease Can Now Be Detected Through the Skin

18 points| jspann | 1 year ago |wsj.com

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Havoc|1 year ago

What’s the easiest test available to the man on the street?

melling|1 year ago

“The test accurately detected the abnormal alpha-synuclein protein in 93% of people who had already been diagnosed by their symptoms with Parkinson’s”

blamestross|1 year ago

Nifty very sensitive, but my sticky note that says "positive" is accurate 100% of the time when placed on people who have already been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

What's the specificity?