[r-q-tek86]

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[Red_Devil 232]

If it proves to be effective after more testing, it is more than a “Discovery of the Decade” It will be a discovery of a “Century or Two”!

[Vince Ferrer]

Its nice and all that, but I’d still rather have my money go towards buying carbon credits.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Just what we need. A pill to turn the former Mother-in-law from He!!, now in a nursing home, back into the mother-in-law from he!!.;-)

[C210N]

What was this thread about?

...anyways, probably too late to help me. whatever it was...

[IrishCatholic]

But will it make my certain part of the anatomy bigger?

Oh, wait, you mean pharmaceutical companies aren’t all evil?

[fishergirl]

Good article, thanks!

[yorkie]

You gotta read this! If true, it’s a miracle.

[bill1952]

>Experts urged caution, warning that the drug had been tried on only a very few patients and, crucially, had not been tested against a placebo in a randomised controlled trial.

??? How do you inject a placebo into the spinal column and tilt the patient back, etc?

WTH would be garnered from that? Other than to place a patient at risk for nothing?

Placebos are not relevant here. - It either works or it does not, and the difference would be discernible to anyone familiar with the patient.

[trumandogz]

Unfortunately, there are few if any Magic Bullets.

I suspect this in not one either.

[Winged Hussar]

This is worth VERY accelerated research and approval, and a Nobel Prize for Medicine if it works—on a par with the Salk Vaccine.

[Centurion2000]

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[nyyankeefan]

Discovery of the decade? Injection ‘could cure Alzheimer’s in minutes’...if true...what a miracle....

now lets hope for a discovery to cure liberalism!!!

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

A Dr told his patient, "I have bad news and really bad news."

The patient asked for the bad news first and the Dr told him that he has AIDS.

The patient responded, "AIDS...OH MY GODDDD IM A DEAD MAN!!!!! everyone will think I'm queer, what will I tell my family?, give me the other news doc"

The doc said, "You also have Alzheimer's."

The patient responded, "Alzheimer's? what a relief, for a minute there I thought you were going to tell me I have AIDS."

[trailboss800]

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[bobwoodard]

Other articles: here and here. (link to video available in article)

[RJS1950]

Since this drug helps to inhibit the inflammatory immune response on cell surfaces and altzheimers seems to be a type of immune response gone bad the results might make some sense. This type of drug is already in use and one of the commonly advertised forms is Embrel.

[Tennessee_Bob]

It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the AWP on etanercept over the next couple months. It’s already expensive as hell.

[Obadiah]

Wow. If this is validated this will be great news! Thanks for the post.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

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How can an injection cure degeration that has already occured in the brain?
?

[Bull Man]

If this indeed is NOT a hoax then the FDA should fast-track its approval since this effects so many people. But if this IS a hoax that has lifted people's hopes only to be dashed later then whoever perpetrated it should be...well, YOU fill in the blank __________!

[raybbr]

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[uncbob]

and, crucially, had not been tested against a placebo in a randomised controlled trial.

Yeah a placebo is going to have the same effect---why waste time

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting & links (although video not seen in links, bob). Thanks to all contributors.

Ping.

Fascinating.

Health/Life BUMP!

[rbg81]

I’m a lot skeptical that you can cure a degenerative disease that inflicts years worth of damages in a few minutes. It would be great if true, however.

[firewalk]

Thanks for posting this

[r9etb]

1. An interesting finding ... IF TRUE.

2. As is said in the diabetes world, "It's a treatment, not a cure."

3. I guess there's one more treatment that doesn't require fetal stem cells....

[kruss3]

Very recent research indicates that Alzheimer’s is another manifestation of type two diabetes in that new memory is created when insulin facilitates the uptake of glucose into a brain cell neuron. Alzheimer’s patients have limited ability to create new memory because of this type of “insulin resistance”. In type two diabetics it is the inability of insulin to facilitiate efficient uptake of glucose into skeletal muscles and the accumulation of excess levels of serum glucose that forms the generally accepted definition of type two diabetes and the related concepts of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and syndrome X.

I have recently developed a novel mechanism for temporarily circumventing the type two diabetic form of insulin resistance and I am optimistic it will have similar effects on the insulin resistance that impedes the formation of new memory in Alzheimer’s patients.

[dragnet2]

Scientists at the Institute for Neurological Research at the University of California have treated around 50 patients at a private clinic by injecting an anti-arthritic drug, etanercept, into the spinal column in the neck and then tilting the patients to encourage the drug to flow to the brain. They claim 90 per cent respond to the treatment, usually within minutes, and have released videos of patients to prove it.

Within minutes? Incredible!

[Hacklehead]

Lets not rush the approval process. The last promising alzhiemers treatment was an antibody against the plaque that forms in the brain. At first it caused a greeat reduction in plaque and partial restoration of function. Then all the patients started dying of an autoimmune response.

[wizr]

It’ll never get approved, ‘cause the FDA will forget what they were approving, by the time they get a ROUND TUIT.

What was that I said????

[aruanan]

Experts urged caution, warning that the drug had been tried on only a very few patients and, crucially, had not been tested against a placebo in a randomised controlled trial.

The placebo test would be for one of two reasons: 1. to rule out the chance that anything injected into the spinal column of Alzheimers patients could have the same effect. In studies involving ablating portions of rat brain to see what effect it had on the rat's appetite, researchers admitted that a reduction in appetite could be just the effect of cutting up part of the brain rather than something affecting a specific site of appetite in the brain. 2. to rule out the chance that Alzheimer patients with years of being unresponsive and being unable to communicate with loved ones could have overheard doctors talking about hoped for effects of the treatment and improved because of that.

I think the second is unlikely.

[GBA]

Thanks for posting!

Future reference ping to self.

[Joya]

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