Posted on 07/30/2008 5:09:28 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
A new drug halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer’s disease, say British scientists. It is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments. A daily capsule of rember, as the drug is known, stops Alzheimer’s disease progressing by as much as 81 per cent, according to trial results. Patients with the brain disorder had no significant decline in their mental function over a 19-month period. ‘We appear to be bringing the worst affected parts of the brain functionally back to life,’ said Dr Claude Wischik, who led the research. It is the first time medication has been developed to target the ‘tangles’ in the brain that destroy nerve cells, leading to deteriorating memory. The drug helps to disrupt this process, preventing the formation of new tangles and loosening those already created. Last night the findings were hailed as the biggest breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimer’s since 1907.
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The trial was carried out by a team at the University of Aberdeen, led by Professor Wischik, who 20 years ago discovered the ‘tau protein’ which makes up the tangles. ‘This is an unprecedented result in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease,’ he said. ‘We have demonstrated for the first time that it may be possible to arrest progression of the disease by targeting the tangles that are highly correlated with the disease.
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Images of the brain showed rember had its biggest effect in the parts linked to memory, where the density of tau tangles is greatest, with better blood flow to these areas. The drug works by dissolving the tangle of tau fibres which releases waste products that kill nerve cells, and by preventing the fibres from becoming tangled.
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Rember?
Well, if it works, it should be named Remember, shouldn’t it?
It is heartbreaking. But it is especially cruel if people believe these stories. The UK papers always carry exciting new developments that fade away and are never heard of again, so do not get your hopes up.
It must be the way they keep people believing in the NHS and prevent them from rioting.
See for yourselves and try to follow up these stories a month later. I keep posting the warnings and to date, nothing has come to pass that has proven me to be anything worse than a skeptic.
I have had so many relatives and neighbors lost to this, as well as our loss of Ronald Reagan, that I wish as much as anyone for it to be true.
http://www.google.com/search?q=rember
Rember is a Mac OS X application that tests Random Access Memory.
Cool. I don’t suppose anybody is going to note that the pill is not made from aborted baby embryos.
Yes, but many won’t remember waiting for it. :-)
It won’t work, just another pharmasuitical hype until it gets pulled because it’s killing people, they don’t even know what the cause is, give me a break.
Rember?
Ok who forgot the em?
/ticket please
Unfortunately I concur with other skeptics that this latest breakthrough is hype. We will see a lot of these "cures" come out as Alzheimers becomes more and more prevalent and fears increase.
What happened in 1907 that was more important?
The race to prevent the protein build up in the brain as well as reducing it has being going on for some time. It looks like some one has found a successful compound to work against the proteins. This is a hot research topic in biochemistry and chemistry research departments.
I talked to a psychologist involved in alzheimer’s research recently and he told me he expects to see medications like this on the market in the next five years.
Does it work postmortem??
Lost my mom to that dreaded disease prayers to you and your mom Don’t feel bad if you wish she would just go its normal
This does seem too good to be true, but I’d like to give you a little hope. Drawsing, it may not be able to help your father since he has progressed in the disease. However, I do know that there is a great focus on protein build up in the brain of alzheimer’s patients. Brains of alzheimer’s patients have this protein around the brain, which first causes inflamation, then damage. There are chemists, biologists, and medical researchers testing different inhibitors to see which ones work best with the least amount of side effects. It could be that someone in the UK found an effective inhibitor.
Quite true.
Only if Obie-Wan Obama administers it.
If he is elected trust me we are all gonna get it administered
If Rember will be available in Britain in 2012, then considering the FDA gauntlet it will have to run here, jeez, it should be available here in the U.S. by say ... about 2020 if we’re lucky?
But not to worry, by then we’ll have an almost bankrupt socialized health care system, so they won’t be able to afford to give it to us peasants.
Wow, great promising news.
Yep...too far out for my 87 year old mother.
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