100 Year-Old Drug Halts Progress Of Alzheimer's 108
pafischer writes "Several Australian and UK websites are running articles on this story. I'm shocked that I heard it on the Baltimore rock radio station news, but don't see it on any of the big US new websites. 'Clioquinol, developed 100 years ago, can absorb the zinc and copper compounds that concentrate in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers before dementia sets in, the study found.' Read all about it at ABC Radio AU, The Sidney Morning Herald, and The Age." Of course, the pathology of Alzheimer's is far from fully understood.
Watch the big drug companies kill this QUICK (Score:4, Interesting)
Sorry folks. Alzheimer's won't get an effective until Pfizer is good and READY.
Testing testing testing - Re:It's be great to see (Score:3, Interesting)
very interesting - especially considering BSE/CJD (Score:2, Interesting)
In fact, at least 13% [cyber-dyne.com] of Alzheimer's cases are indeed CJD caused by mad cow. If larger studies were done, this percentage could end up much higher.
It may turn out that Alzheimer's is due to mad cow, or its predecessor, mad sheep (scrapie).
I hope that any new studies of this drug also focus on how it works in people versus CJD.
All over the beef-eating world, we are seeing CJD very early in people. Italy's only known case of CJD was a man who was merely 27 years old [bbc.co.uk]. Given CJD's incubation time, it would indicate that mad cow/BSE/CJD has been in Italy anywhere from 5 to 15 years.
For transmission between people, CJD is a blood borne disease [bbc.co.uk], similar to HIV in how it spreads. This would explain why the ramp on Alzheimer's is so rapid and why so many young people are getting Alzheimer's.
Almost all the medical news regarding mad cow/BSE/CJD has been killed in the US. The simplest assumption would be that there is far more mad cow in the system than anyone wants to say. Only a ingenuous imbecile would think that out of over 35 million cows that are killed every year in the US, over the past 10 years or more, only 1 cow from Canada had BSE/mad cow. Especially considering that the US imports 1.7 million cows from Canada every year. And 1 million from Mexico. In both countries, Canada and Mexico, they have followed the US lead and perform near zero mad cow/BSE testing.
Anyhow, that is a lot on the crazy cow. I am hoping a fool's hope that Alzheimer's does not turn out to be caused by crazy cow. For if it is, there will be an epidemic of dementia in the USA unless a cure is found in the immediate future.
Of course an upcoming unstoppable Alzheimer's epidemic... would clearly explain the sudden and massive urge to offshore all jobs that require brain power to India, land of the sacred cow :-)
Re:Wait a minute... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:very interesting - especially considering BSE/C (Score:3, Interesting)
Are these items possibly related? (Score:2, Interesting)