Alzheimer's - Still Searching for the Cure

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Phyllis Johnson

Alzheimer's disease sufferers and their families and friends haven't had much to celebrate in terms of new treatments for the disease in recent years. No vaccine against the disease has been developed. No new drugs or treatments have been proven to reverse the progress of the disease as it marches inevitably toward death for its victims.

It was understandable, therefore, that there was excitement at the Alzheimer Association's International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago last July, when some promising results from drug trials were reported that appeared to present a new understanding of how the neurological disease works.

Scientists are beginning to segregate out different therapeutic targets and develop drugs that have....read the whole article