If you've ever experienced having to watch someone go through Alzheimers or dementia, this is pretty encouraging news. Perhaps even bigger if you have a history of this in your family. One of the first viable treatments for the prevention or reduction of the disease. Ten years in the future until widespread implementation, and I am hoping that it doesn't get swallowed up in a cost/benefit vortex, as many promising drugs seem to.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/d...164/story.html
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It is the first time that a medication has been shown to work on the underlying disease process itself rather than the symptoms by clearing out the sticky amyloid plaques which stop brain cells from communicating with each other.
The drug would be given by infusion, but experts say that there could come a time when people at risk of dementia are screened and given preventative drugs, like statins are used to prevent heart problems.
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