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Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients
ljw1004 writes "Alzheimer's researchers are divided on whether the disease is caused by 'beta amyloid' (a peptide found in Alzheimer brains) or by 'tau protein' (normally used for cellular scaffolding, but can aggregate out of control and destroy neurons). Today in Chicago a new drug has been announced that stops tau aggregation and appears to have halted Alzheimer's-related decline in 300 clinical trial patients. The drug is known as 'rember.' Do you have friends or family who appear to be on the road to dementia? Here is an online questionnaire, part of one used in the clinical trial to diagnose dementia. (Disclosure: I made the online questionnaire, and my father is one of the scientists behind the drug.)"
I imagine they started writing remember, but forgot how far they'd gotten when committing it to paper.
Now what's that drug called...?
(Disclosure: I made the online questionnaire, and my father is one of the scientists behind the drug.)
oh yeah, well my dad...
On the list of things that should be remembered, I'd hope that "me" would be pretty high.
Yeah. And mine said I have no signs of dementia. Clearly this test is fubared!
(why do I have to wait 7 mintues between posts)?
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Judging from the number of spelling errors in the above post, I think it's safe to say that I am already being gradually robbed of at least one of my cognitive functions.
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
That's probably the real reason Fermat never finished his last theorem.
"The drug is known as 'rember.' "
Too bad even though it stops Alzheimers, it causes dyslexia...
how long until
Unless you are talking about Windows
suppose it could have been worse. When I get a bit frazzled I tend to repeat myself. We could of ended up with remememememember.
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The "drug" is only a well-known [google.com] synthetic dye [wrongdiagnosis.com]. "Rember" is Methylene blue [thefreedictionary.com]. The Free Dictionary says it is, "A basic aniline dye that forms a deep blue solution when dissolved in water and is used as a bacteriological stain and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning."
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