Alzheimer; News from the web:

Researchers at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center say they are getting closer to a vaccine that could someday rescue people from Alzheimer’s.

Although still years away, the hope is it could treat or even prevent the disease, and at a lower cost than other potential cures being researched.

Assistant professor Kiran Bhaskar and his team have developed a vaccine that restores cognition in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer’s disease. It also reverses changes in their brains that indicate the presence of the disease.

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Alzheimer; News from the web:

More news on the great trial from Biogen:

A new Alzheimer’s drug that reverses the damage the disease causes in patients’ brains could ‘change the landscape’ of future treatment, according to researchers.

It has already performed so well at early-stage trials involving people living with the disease in the United States that scientists are now in talks aimed at leapfrogging the usual second stage and fast-tracking it for larger trials.

Pharmaceutical firm Biogen, which developed the drug, called aduncanumab, wants to recruit at least 1,000 patients for tests by the end of the year.

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Alzheimer; News from the web:

An experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease sharply slowed the decline in mental function in a small clinical trial, researchers reported Friday, reviving hopes for an approach to therapy that until now has experienced repeated failures.

The drug, being developed by Biogen Idec, could achieve sales of billions of dollars a year if the results from the small trial are replicated in larger trials that Biogen said it hoped to begin this year. Experts say that there are no really good drugs now to treat Alzheimer’s.

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