Asthma Drug Could Help Control Or Treat Alzheimer's Disease

Friday, March 25, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

A drug used to treat asthma has been shown to help reduce the formation of amyloid beta, a peptide that is implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease, and the subsequent build up of amyloid plaques in the brain by more than 50 percent.

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