The urgent need for better treatment of Alzheimer ‘s disease and other kinds of dementia was highlighted this past week with a report that said dementia cost this country as much as $215 billion a year. well, now there is a fascinating study going on involving some new drugs that might prevent Alzheimer ‘s. we […]
Very few people carry that mutation, but enough have it for Washington University researchers to test three drugs that could offer hope for them, and the larger search for a cure.
Three new clinical trials expected to begin next year will attempt to prevent dementia by treating people at risk for the disease before they develop symptoms.
Randall J. Bateman, M.D., Chengjie Xiong, Ph.D.,Tammie L.S. Benzinger, M.D., Ph.D., Anne M. Fagan, Ph.D.,Alison Goate, Ph.D., Nick C. Fox, M.D., Daniel S. Marcus, Ph.D.,Nigel J. Cairns, Ph.D., Xianyun Xie, M.S., Tyler M. Blazey, B.S.,David M. Holtzman, M.D., Anna Santacruz, B.S., Virginia Buckles, Ph.D.,Angela Oliver, R.N., Krista Moulder, Ph.D., Paul S. Aisen, M.D.,Bernardino Ghetti, M.D., […]
Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
