Alzheimer's Treatment Mooted

aminorex writes "Enbrel (etanercept) has been immediately, markedly, and consistently effective in all Alzheimer's patients, according to a report in Science Daily. The original research article is available online at the Journal of Neuroinflammation web site. "We can see cognitive and behavioral improvement in a patient with established dementia within minutes of therapeutic intervention" comments one Journal editor." "All Alzheimer's patients" may be over-optimistic, but according to the article, though the research it concerns has been heavily focused on a single patient, "many other patients with mild to severe Alzheimer's received the treatment and all have shown sustained and marked improvement."

Log term effects?

[ArsonSmith]

Do we really want to put people on new drugs like this? What if in 40 years all these people come down with some kind of cancer?

Re:Bad Title

[Anonymous Coward]

Inconceivable!

Re:Log term effects?

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget about cancer. I think patients turning into logs is a far more urgent issue.

Just In Time for Terry!

[Dunx]

With any luck this treatment will be (a) effective enough, and (b) available enough in the UK for it to have a positive effect on Terry Pratchett's condition.

Re:Just In Time for Terry!

[DarkGreenNight]

So, I see that the plan has worked:

http://somethingpositive.net/sp12232007.shtml [somethingpositive.net]

(Hopefully this will be the start of a good treatement to all those afflicted by this disease)

Re:actually, they do

[Jhon]

1. To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate.
2. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

Seeing how effecient and successful the UN runs, I think perhaps you could read that as "To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate is of no practical importance and irrelevant".

Glad we cleared that up.

Re:I would take this with a grain of HCl

[Hatta]

You might like some NaOH to go with that HCl.

Re:I would take this with a grain of HCl

[DirkGently]

...for those of you that had chem at 8am on a monday, when you combine those two you get salt @ water. I just had to point that out because I thought it a particularly funny nerd-joke and I didn't want anyone to miss it.