Does new research really mean the 'beginning of the end of Alzheimer's'? 👉 For more than three decades, the cause of the disease has been one of the most vexed issues in medicine. Now, experts are disagreeing about the latest scientific breakthroughs
. It’s been discovered relatively recently that while we sleep, harmful proteins are flushed away by the brain’s waste-removal apparatus, the glymphatic system.
ICER, the US medicines rationing body – America’s equivalent of NICE – balked at shelling out $56,000 a year, per patient – plus the cost of scans and infusion arrangements – for a medicine that probably didn’t work. European health providers ran a mile. Crucially, Tanzi thinks that by the time microglia cells start their killing spree, it might be too late to treat or reverse the damage by removing amyloid plaques. He believes that treating people early – decades before symptoms appear, with amyloid-lowering drugs, is the answer. “If they tested all Americans tomorrow, 40 million of them would be phoning their doctors asking for immunotherapy,” he says. He compares high amyloid levels to, as something that needs treating early.
Fiona Carragher, director of research and influencing at the Alzheimer’s Society, says we are in a “really exciting time for Alzheimer’s research, with 143 drugs in the pipeline and medications to slow disease progression around the corner”.Staff and equipment shortages in the NHS Concerned, Paul and Tracey consulted their GP. Paul was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s seven months later.
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