Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview

after 40 years of study a potential solution may be close

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Alzheimer; News from the web:

A potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is beginning a clinical trial in 100 patients in London this month. The government’s National Institute for Health Research is providing £4.5m to run the three-year trial, in the hope that a drug called miridesap will succeed where so many others have failed — and slow or even reverse patients’ progression to dementia.

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The best defense is attack or in this case, prevention of Alzheimer’s

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It may be too late to stop Alzheimer’s in people who already have some mental decline. But what if a treatment could target the very earliest brain changes while memory and thinking skills are still intact, in hope of preventing the disease? Two big studies are going all out to try.

Clinics throughout the United States and some other countries are signing up participants — the only studies of this type enrolling healthy older people.

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