Groundbreaking $100M study aims to stop Alzheimer's before it starts

[Rhiannon12866]

(CBS News) Alzheimer's disease cannot be cured but it can be prevented. The government announced Tuesday a $100 million study to test an Alzheimer's prevention drug in just one family. It's potentially a breakthrough because it's hard to test Alzheimer's prevention.

Scientists can never know which healthy people will develop the disease, but now they've found one family in which nearly everyone develops Alzheimer's.

CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's or another forms of dementia. That's expected to triple over the next 40 years as the population ages.

The annual cost of care - now $200 billion - could hit $1 trillion. The Obama administration announced a strategy Tuesday to find a treatment by 2025.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57435037/groundbreaking-$100m-study-aims-to-stop-alzheimers-before-it-starts/?tag=strip

[mucifer]

1. Meanwhile there are 90 medications on clinical trials from nih.gov:

This is an exciting time for Alzheimer’s disease clinical research. Thanks to advances in our understanding of this disease and powerful new tools for “seeing” and diagnosing it in people, scientists are making great strides in identifying potential new interventions to help diagnose, slow, treat, and someday prevent the disease entirely.

But Alzheimer’s research can move forward only if people are willing to volunteer for clinical trials and studies. Before any drug or therapy can be used in clinical practice, it must be rigorously tested to find out whether it is safe and effective in humans. Today, at least 50,000 volunteers, both with and without Alzheimer’s, are urgently needed to participate in more than 175 actively enrolling clinical trials and studies in the United States. To reach that goal, researchers will need to screen at least half a million potential volunteers.

http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/participating-alzheimers-disease-clinical-trials-and-studies-fact-sheet

[Rhiannon12866]

5. My grandmother would have volunteered anytime...

She was terribly worried about having that happen to her, even joined a support group though she was neither a caregiver or a patient. I told her that since she hadn't been diagnosed with it by age 90, I thought she was pretty safe...

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Big Kick

Thanks!

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Thank you!!!

[RagAss]

4. Vitamin D3. 25 OHD levels > 70ng

Now give me the 100 million dollars.