The future of Alzheimer’s
One of the largest burdens on American’s health care system is caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia. Currently over 5.4 million people are living with the disease and more than 15 million Americans are caring for persons with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the US and the ONLY cause among the top 10 that has no cure, prevention treatment or can even be slowed. Is Alzheimer’s our new Cancer?
A strategic plan is being developed by the Journal of Alzheimer’s Association. States across the country are vamping up their APS departments, elderly abuse divisions of district attorneys offices are popping up, and drug companies are trying to find cures, ways to predict the disease and even ways to slow the disease down.
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co. show promise with new experimental Alzheimer’s treatment due to decline of cognition in some patients. Read the Article. Researches find promise in attacking a key building block of the Alzheimer’s disease. Read the Article. TauRx Therapeutics is conducting a clinical trial on a new treatment for Pick’s Disease (a form of Dementia which is similar to Alzheimer’s. Read the Article.
Texas Law Today 
May 18, 2013 at 3:03 am
Aristotle says that ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” and I love it