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Everyone has their eyes on this year’s flu season, which is predicted to collide with the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
The CDC and other health agencies are already issuing strong recommendations to the public to get their flu shot as early as possible.
In addition to protecting against the flu, flu shots may also have an unexpected benefit: lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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The first infusion of an investigational drug that aims to delay or help to prevent the earliest memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease took place in September at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., researchers announced.
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An interesting development is that apparently an experimental drug, aimed to help people with Alzheimer’s, could play a role in helping children with certain types of Autims. Read the full story in our link for today.
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Clinical trials of Alzheimer’s medicines have failed frequently but now researchers believe that this may have been caused by the drugs given too late. So if they could just develop a test that would detect Alzheimer’s earlier, it would make the drugs that have failed for use later in the process, so much more productive.
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This sounds like good news. Scientists have found a way to speed up the testing of Alzheimer’s drugs.
Alzheimer’s clinical trials may take decades, but a new discovery could cut clinical trial time down to a matter of weeks.
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A laboratory study has found that the asthma drug salbutamol prevents the formation of tangles of fibrous protein that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The next step will be to test the drug in animal models of the disease.
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