Scientists have found a new vaccine to be effective against Alzheimer’s disease

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Here is some good news about the fight against Alzheimer. Scientist have declared a human trail successful. The new treatment involves active immunisation, using a type of vaccine designed to trigger the body’s immune defence against beta-amyloid.

In this second clinical trial on humans, the vaccine was modified to affect only the harmful beta-amyloid.

The researchers found that 80 per cent of the patients involved in the trials developed their own protective antibodies against beta-amyloid without suffering any side effects over the three years of the study.

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Moving forward to prevention

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Where the researchers once could only diagnose Alzheimer after a patient’s death with an autopsy, these days we can see the disease progress with brainscans and can treat it with inserting medicine directly into the brain. Yet the best shot at getting Alzheimer under control, while 35 million people worldwide now suffer from this disease, is to switch the efforts to prevention.

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Early Onset Alzheimer

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An estimated 5.4 million americans suffer from early onset Alzheimer. This represents about 10% of all who suffer from Alzheimer.

  • Severity: The symptoms of Alzheimer’s – memory loss, intellectual and behavioural disorders – take a more aggressive course in younger victims.
  • Speed: Rather than progressing over 10 to 15 years, as is the case with older patients, young-onset Alzheimer’s takes only a few years to reach an advanced stage. Mortality rates vary, but “people usually die after eight years,” says Yves Agid, a renowned neurologist and neuroscientist.

 

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Immune system helps with Alzheimer

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Researchers have found that a gene called CCR2 can help with fighting memory loss for people with Alzheimer’s disease. This is a very exciting result. It may be that CCR2-associated immunity could be strengthened in humans to slow Alzheimer’s disease. The work is still in it’s early stages but the results should be encouraging.

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