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Alzheimer’s Notes

Alzheimer’s News From Around the World.

by Liz Lewis on July 30th, 2008

More Doubts On New Alzheimer’s Drug - “In a packed room before thousands of neurologists, Elan and Wyeth presented long-awaited trial results for one of their drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, probably the most watched experimental medicine in the pharmaceutical industry…” (more)

New Tests Could Predict Alzheimer’s - ” New tests promise to detect Alzheimer’s disease before a person shows signs of dementia, giving treatments their best chance to prevent loss of mental function…” (more)

Four Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Address a Variety of Treatment Targets - Amyloid, Tau, Synapse Formation - “Results from four studies of potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s - even an unsuccessful late stage clinical trial - increase the field’s knowledge and point scientists toward advances in therapies for the disease, according to research reported today at the 2008 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008), in Chicago…” (more)

‘De-Tangling’ Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise - “A drug that aims to reduce the clogging “tangles” in the brain cells of people with Alzheimer’s disease appears promising in early trials, researchers report…” (more)

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