{"id":4170,"date":"2016-09-01T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:19:45","slug":"test-of-experimental-alzheimers-drug-finds-progress-against-brain-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Test Of Experimental Alzheimer&#8217;s Drug Finds Progress Against Brain Plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>An experimental drug dramatically reduced the toxic plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a team <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature19323\">reports<\/a> in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/08\/31\/491941518\/test-of-experimental-alzheimers-drug-finds-progress-against-brain-plaques?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=33714165&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--dHAZ2k6eZP9AAe3ompJGipiheJSCmfcZDJ0I22Kno3MNaJMH0V_JrdlT6VemsQPMTlzS-SfZj-x2LooHO4LkKylsT3w&amp;_hsmi=33714165\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) An experimental drug dramatically reduced the toxic plaques found in the brains of patients with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}