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Alzheimer's Prevented And Reversed With Natural Protein In Animal Models

  • 09-02-2009 11:42am
    #1
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090208133135.htm
    An interesting story, this looks like it may be a fairly big breakthrough, but there is no word on when human trials will start.

    It would be nice to take a chunk out of Alzheimer's disease.


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  • #2
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    This is great news, hopefully it will lead to a treatment for the disease.


  • #3
    Cunny-Funt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Cunny-Funt


    My Granddad has alzheimers, its almost like hes an empty shell. Tis a horrible condition. :(

    This is good to hear, I must say I often wonder about getting alzheimer's myself, my memories **** enough at 24... so it feels like its just inevitable.


  • #4
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    I know that Elan are very close to producing a drug for alzheimer sufferers. :)

    Buy Irish people!


  • #5
    Diarmsquid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Diarmsquid


    Good to see scientists working on something worthwhile, and not another study on how "smoking 40 fags a day and eating lard may have health risks".


  • #6
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    axel rose wrote: »
    Buy Irish people!
    Polish people work better.


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  • #7
    axel rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭axel rose


    Why would I want to make people shiny? :P


  • #8
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I have an elderly relative in his 70s who has to take medication for various conditions , one being diabetes and alzhiemer's because he is in the early stages of the disease .When he has taken his medication he is fine and drives around most day's .However , occasionaly on some days, he will forget to take his prescription and the difference is quite noticable ,were he becomes totally lost in his conversation ,going of on tangents away from his original topic were he, and you end up not having a clue what he is on about .Yet on his normal days ,he is as sound and coherant as anybody . But it does show how important taken the med's is for people such as himself .


  • #9
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Sadly not enough funding goes into research on cures/prevention :mad:


  • #10
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Sadly, sometimes research is continued for financial reasons, some drugs could be released sooner, but it's more financially rewarding for the companies to stall until they milk it for all they can.
    Imagine how much research companies would loose if we had a cure for AIDS or certain Cancers in the morning?
    Of course drugs have to be proven to be as safe as possible, and that takes time and money, but sometimes, i think vested interests do hold back on releasing some drugs \ cures for longer than is necessary.


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