Are we closer to a cure for the disease?
An antibody therapy that can remove the amyloid toxin in patients with Alzheimer's disease has been shown to slow down the progression of the disease in clinical trials,. This is seen as a major breakthrough in treating the disease after years of scientific research.
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that affects individuals in the latter stages of their life and impacts their memory and thinking ability. In the most severe cases, Alzheimer's patients cannot carry out the simplest tasks. from the National Institute of Aging, as many as six million Americans may have dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease.which makes it difficult to devise a cure. In such a scenario, even a drug that reduces the severity of the disease is hailed as a breakthrough and the results of the recent drug trial demonstrate more than a mere slowdown of disease progression.
During the trial, the researchers also used blood tests and brain scans to measure the levels of amyloid in the patients. In patients that received the antibody drug during the trial, the amyloid levels fell so low that the patients could no longer be clinically diagnosed as affected by Alzheimer's.that the drug could provide a real treatment option for the disease and more benefits would become more apparent with time.
During the trial, two participants reportedly died, but the drug manufacturers have claimed that the causes of their deaths were not related to the antibody used. Developed by U.S.
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