Will This Vaccine Prevent or Reverse Alzheimer's Disease? [News]
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
There are currently no drugs to halt or reverse the spread of Alzheimer's disease, and researchers have tread carefully in the wake of a failed vaccine trial six years ago that was stopped after 18 patients developed potentially fatal brain inflammation and two of them suffered strokes.One experimental vaccine, however, shows promise. It not only prevented the buildup of amyloid beta (Aß), a sticky protein linked to Alzheimer's, but it also does not appear to produce the dangerous side effects of earlier versions tested in humans. [More]