Alzheimer’s-preventing drugs may already exist — we just can’t test them

(By Julie Zissimopoulos for STAT)

The search for drugs to prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease has been a decades-long exercise in frustration, with promising candidate after promising candidate coming up short. A drug we already have on hand that’s highly effective at something else may stop Alzheimer’s — but we are nowhere close to getting it tested for that purpose and into the hands of patients. Continue reading article here…

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