These past few years are being called a major tipping point in Alzheimer's research. A second treatment has now been approved that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer's, not just the symptoms.
A second treatment has now been approved that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s, not just the symptoms.“I want to spread the news,” said Alzheimer’s patient Gail Youngdale.
“My children were telling me, ‘You’re doing some of the same things that grandmother did,’ and that disturbed me,” Gail said. “You don’t just go to the pharmacy and get it and go home and take the medicine. You have to be tested,” Gail explained. “I started with the Alzheimer’s Association in 2015, and back then, treatment that actually impacted the underlying biology of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease was science fiction. This is the most that’s been done in the hundred-plus years we’ve known about this disease after it was first identified in 1906,” Sciuto said.
“The thing that all three have in common is they’re most effective in the earliest stages of dementia,” Sciuto said.
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