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Alzheimer’s: A Path Toward A Cure
Alzheimer’s: A Path Toward A Cure
Acurian – Every major health epidemic has seemed daunting and insurmountable, until a single momentous discovery – or more often, a critical mass of accumulated knowledge – tips the balance toward a decisive treatment or cure. Vaccines that took a hundred years to conceive are now viewed as a matter of routine care. Cancers that claimed every victim are now handily defeated with targeted drugs.
NEW PARADIGMS IN ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH
AcuriaN Alzheimer's Research New Paradigms
Nowhere is this reality more explicit than with the current state of alzheimer’s (AD) disease research.
Scientists hypothesize, but cannot definitively prove, that tangles of tau protein and build-ups of beta-amyloid plaque contribute to the hallmark cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease. There is no specific test for the disease, no defining treatment, and no reliable yardstick to measure its progression.