Prevent alzheimer instead of cure?

Alzheimer; News from the web:

This article suggests that the better way to go is to try and avoid Alzheimer in the first place rather than to chase a cure. A parallel is drawn with preventing heart disease that was more successful than repairing the ailing hearts

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Good news, less Alzheimer

Alzheimer; News from the web:

We don’t often get to report good news on these pages, but here is a report that the incidence of Alzheimer among the elderly is definitively dropping.

Now it is a mixed message because the number of older people, like over 80, will significantly increase as a result of demographics so the number of Alzheimer cases will still increase.

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A drug for Alzheimer in five years? Really?

Alzheimer; News from the web:

We get these stories from time to time and we pass them on to you, our readers. This one looks more promising than other stories but we don’t like to spread false hope. At this moment there are only a few therapies available and they only work for a limited time frame to delay the unavoidable run of the disease.

This new drug has not been effective with patients in later stages but it is now believed it would be effective in patients with an early development of Alzheimer.

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