Alzheimer's Antibody Cure?

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jenrio
jenrio Member Posts: 558
edited June 2014 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results
For me, this is my favorite bits:
"These three treatments are practically the ‘‘last men standing'' in late-stage trials, after more than a decade of failed efforts to develop a drug to halt the mind-robbing disease. Current medicines such as Aricept and Namenda just temporarily ease symptoms. There is no known cure.

Experts say that if these fail, drug companies may pull out of the field in frustration, leaving little hope for the millions of people with the disease." 

 
It sounds like patients are passive creatures to be fleeced with flashy marketing pitches of inferior drugs that does not help.   If patients are sentient beings, they would vote with their wallets and support their insurance companies to NOT to pay for the inferior drugs/tests/procedures, but instead invest in research and pay for the most innovative procedures/drugs that could potentially deliver the cure.    I'm talking about Alzheimers and cancer.
 
 

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited July 2012

    Well, for once, I am thinking positively Surprised

    A new report indicated that the rare gene that protects people from Alz. has been found, offering a chance to work via that route.

    And there are cures for SOME cancers.  Sure, I wish it were all cancers, but scientists are trying.

    It is a shame that funding/discovery/etc. hinge on money, money and more money and profit..oh wait...money, but I do feel that many in the research field do it for a more altruistic reason.

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