An $80 million national research plan to attack Alzheimer’s, a mind-robbing malady that may affect as many as 16 million Americans by 2050, will start this year with U.S.-sponsored studies on ways to prevent the disease in high- risk people, and treat it with an insulin nasal spray.
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It could be an Alzheimer’s breakthrough. St. Louis researchers have found evidence that anti-depressant drugs, like Prozac, may slow-down, even prevent the disease. There’s just been a big boost to keep the research going.
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Possible Alzheimer’s Breakthrough at Washington University
An NIH-sponsored review of scientific literature on Alzheimer’s disease has concluded that nothing currently works to prevent the disease, writes the Genomics, Evolution and Pseudoscience blog’s Steven Salzberg.
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Alzheimer’s Snake Oil