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100 Year-Old Drug Halts Progress Of Alzheimer's

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Watch the big drug companies kill this QUICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The generic pills we can buy are popular medications that the patent has recently expired on, and mostly things that have at least been popular since that happened. This drug fell off the map and then came back on to it. This makes it easy to whip up some doubt about it. Also alzheimer's is something the big drug companies still haven't cashed in on yet. I can't see them just letting it go without a fight. The FDA likes to talk about how natural medicines are not regulated, implying a lack of safety. The reason the FDA doesn't regulate them is because they are extremely corrupt, and abused their powers when they did regulate natural medicines. They usually leave that fact out. Do a google search on stevia FDA to see what they have tried to do to a natural sweetener that competes with nutrasweet (and unlike nutrasweet, doesn't metabolize into methanol (the alcohol that makes you blind) and formaldehyde (the stuff used to preserve dead people)). You might be surprised. The FDA will gladly steal manuscripts of a book about stevia, and even order the destruction of books already printed that talk about it. All because their buddy Monsanto asked them nicely.

    I am sure the original poster knows about generic drugs, but I am sure the original poster also knows how profitable it would be for a drug company to spin up some bad press about this drug, get it banned, and then rush a new drug, with one atom of the molecule changed, out to the market. They can then say this new drug fixes the imaginary problems of the last one, charge an assload for it, and everybody will be glad they waited!

    The ones that aren't glad about it can just keep their mouths shut, and be glad they didn't get arrested for their illegal canadian imports of the drug they used on their dying relatives. Remember: In Corporate America, the government controls YOU.

  2. Re:Symptoms of Alzheimers... by Lovepump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Their" when you are referring to another person/group of people.

    e.g. "Their behaviour was shocking considering their viewpoint on narcotics"

    "There" otherwise.

    "Those people over there were heavily drugged."