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Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: An extraordinarily promising new technique using ultrasound to clear the toxic protein clumps thought to cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease is moving to the first phase of human trials next year. The innovative treatment has proven successful across several animal tests and presents an exciting, drug-free way to potentially battle dementia. The ultrasound treatment was first developed back in 2015 at the University of Queensland. The initial research was working to find a way to use ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier with the goal of helping dementia-battling antibodies better reach their target in the brain. However, early experiments with mice surprisingly revealed the targeted ultrasound waves worked to clear toxic amyloid protein plaques from the brain without any additional therapeutic drugs. The new announcement regarding the upcoming move to human trials is underpinned by a large funding injection from the Australian government helping accelerate the treatment's development. The first stage is a phase 1 safety trial, kicking off later in 2019, to explore the safety profile of the treatment in human subjects suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Common sense.
White Baby boomers produced an average positive net of $1,205,000 tax revenue over the course of their lives. The average black person generates a net loss of $702k.
I'm not going to assume that is true, but if it is true, the better question is what do we do about it? Are there environmental factors we can address? Is there a lead problem? Pollution? Are the schools a problem? Do we need to basically make a bunch of schools boarding schools so the environment is better controlled? Are people being trained for the jobs that exist?
Either way, i'd much rather we spent money on this kind of thing that a stupid wall. Cleaning up lead pipes would also be way more important than this wall bullshit. Do it efficiently based on need. Reduce needless lead poisoning and people should be more productive.
Yup. Remember that next time you take a pill for a fever or headache
It is common practice to treat the symptoms of an infection/toxin/etc rather than cure it - when you know, a cure doesn't exist. Think of viruses, antibiotic resistant bacteria, etc.
You could buy an ultrasound device on ebay ($100-$1500), and apply it to her head. May need to mod it to increase its output, though. Of course since it hasn't had Stage 1 trials, safety is unknown.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I was in a different situation. Mom developed Alzheimers and I became "the responsible adult". Long story short, had I not been making six-figures and had a spare house for her and her live-in caretaker to live and cover all the expenses, her life would have been a thousand times more hellish than it was already. Our society is failing these folks, not least by not universally allowing voluntary euthanasia for those who choose not to subject themselves to the indignities that result from - essentially - losing your mind.
This is cargo cult mentality. It will likely work as well as grass huts with coconut and vine radios did for calling in supplies to be airdropped from the gods into pacific island villages.
In reality, this procedure is likely to require special equipment used in a very specific way, most likely in conjunction with some other equipment and medicines.
Nope, they go together.
Another rousing game of "Spot the Liberal" who refuses to distinguish between things and behaviors.
A pile of cash, sitting on a table in the middle of the room will not cause everyone who walks by to be evil. Nobody who qualifies as a good person is going to steal it.
When it is stolen it will be by an evil person or a weak willed person with some evil in their heart.
If you read the literature (or just Google) you'll see that others have also managed to eliminate the plaques in various ways. However it remains unclear whether removal of the plaques leads to cognitive improvements. In some cases the animal models show improvement and in other cases not. The situation is even more unclear in people. There's a quick overview here. My own hunch is that a combination of early detection and then a treatment of some sort will be the way forward. Probably cognitive impairement will be hard to fix.
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Letting people have authority over their own body ... when it doesn't just involve cutting off your dick. Trump really is evil personified.
Cut your dick of if you wish, just not on my dime. If you need drugs for the rest of your life to remain in your "prefered gender", then you fucking pay for them.