100 Year-Old Drug Halts Progress Of Alzheimer's

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2004 @06:15PM from the highly-speculative dept.

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.

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Watch the big drug companies kill this QUICK by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 18:23 · Score: 4, Interesting

100-year old drug means no patents. No patents means no profits. No profits means the drugco's won't TOUCH it. And in fact I wouldn't be surprised if we see some studies showing that it causes cancer or something.

Sorry folks. Alzheimer's won't get an effective until Pfizer is good and READY.