New Dementia Drug

[annie]

Eagerly awaited data on the most promising drug in treating Alzheimer's disease is set to be unveiled later.

Patients and scientists hope it could become the first medication to slow the pace of brain decline.

The decline in Alzheimer's is unstoppable - drugs can help with symptoms, but nothing prevents the inexorable death of brain cells.

Hints at the drug's effectiveness will be outlined, but Solanezumab has been the great hope of dementia research.

It targets deformed proteins called amyloid that build up in the brain during Alzheimer's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33617141

[wendy]

keep our fingers crossed

[maureenho]

Lets hope they have found something that works.