Could blood pressure drugs have a role in Alzheimer’s treatment?

Friday, January 29, 2016 - 15:29 in Health & Medicine

In laboratory neuronal cultures, an FDA-approved drug used to treat high blood pressure reduced cell damage often linked to Alzheimer’s disease, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and the National Institutes of Health. They say their work, published online Jan. 28 in the journal Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy, provides information supporting the potential […]

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