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| Subject: Pill could spare 500,000 the agony of Alzheimer's: Treatment can reduce crucial component of the disease by 90% Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:06 pm | |
| A new Alzheimer’s drug that could reduce a crucial component of the disease by 90 per cent is to be tested on thousands of patients.
Experts say ‘exciting’ research on a drug to combat brain plaques could lead to a generally available pill within five years.
If the trials are successful, the drug would help around 400,000-500,000 Britons deemed at ‘high risk’ of developing Alzheimer’s because they have memory problems in late middle age.
In patients with Alzheimer’s, clumps or plaques of a substance called amyloid beta protein stick to brain cells, leading to changes in memory, mood and behaviour.
Results from a previous three-month study of 200 patients, and earlier studies, show the drug reduces these amyloid plaques by up to 90 per cent.
More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2529689/Pill-spare-500-000-agony-Alzheimers-Treatment-reduce-crucial-component-disease-90.html |
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