Category Archives: Treatment

Maybe we need a mix of drugs to fight Alzheimer’s

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This could increase the pace of finding a cure. Researchers are looking at how HIV got brought mostly under control:

The Alzheimer’s Association has partnered with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to challenge the research community to propose promising drug combinations to find more-effective treatments.

The joint effort, known as the Alzheimer’s Combination Therapy Opportunities (ACTO) grant initiative, will provide $2 million this year for testing approaches that simultaneously target two or more processes believed to underlie, exacerbate, or occur in the disease.

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A nice extra with stroke prevention! It reduces dementia!

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Ontario’s stroke prevention strategy appears to have had an unexpected, beneficial side effect: a reduction also in the incidence of dementia among older seniors. A new paper is the first to look at the demographics of both stroke and dementia across Ontario since the province pioneered Canada’s first stroke prevention strategy in 2000.

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Promising drug from the UK

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Human trials coming soon, results expected in 2-3 years, what is there not to like? A novel approach that has been done before but had some disadvantages. The researchers are now confident they have figured out the correct way to stop memory degeneration.

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