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We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-forward dept.

We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer's disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease. New Scientist: That's bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published Wednesday shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer's. There could even be a vaccine. Alzheimer's is one of the biggest mysteries in medicine. As populations have aged, dementia has skyrocketed to become the fifth biggest cause of death worldwide. Alzheimer's constitutes some 70 per cent of these cases and yet, we don't know what causes it.

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  1. People, Just Floss by moehoward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just floss people. And don't FORGET to floss. The more you floss, the less you will forget to floss. See how that works?

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    1. Re:People, Just Floss by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just floss people. And don't FORGET to floss. The more you floss, the less you will forget to floss. See how that works?

      I'm really not much of a dancer though.

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      "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    2. Re:People, Just Floss by bugs2squash · · Score: 1, Funny

      mental floss ?

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  2. Re:I already know by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already know the cause...well I did but I forgot about it. What are we talking about again?

    You were saying how much you loved Elon Musk, Tesla, space colonization, AI, self driving cars, and anything else high tech.

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    "That's the way to do it" - Punch
  3. President is irrelevant by ghoul · · Score: 1, Funny

    One good thing the Trump Presidency has done is that it has shown people how powerless the Presidency really is. Trump hasnt been able to enact a single part of his Domestic agenda (The tax cuts were Ryan's agenda). The Bureaucracy and shadow state run the country not the elected govt.
    People in the US like simplistic answers and have a Messiah complex so the office of the Presidency has been overhyped. Even Obama didnt really do anything which the Bureaucracy didn't want him to do.
    At least Trump is making it clear that what is happening is not what he wants.

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