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Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that has brought more problems to health specialists. So far it has not been possible to create a treatment to cure the disease, nor is there a method that serves to detect the disease in its early stage.
Unfortunately people who suffer from Alzheimer hear about it when the disease is already well advanced. Desperation often leads to patients tested with experimental drugs or treatments without real medical certification, but the fact is that so far cannot do much to combat this evil.
Alzheimer’s disease gradually destroys cognitive ability of people who suffer, and the clearest symptom is the gradual loss of memory and comprehension level. Experts indicate that the cause is still unknown disease-specific, but that people with diabetes, hypertension or obesity are more likely to suffer.
We are all afraid to lose my memory, so tene news of a vaccine against Alzheimer’s is great. It was developed by a Spanish biotech company and begin to be tested in humans late next month in Austria.
The vaccine is administered in the early stages of disease development, and its main objective is to stop the brain damage linked to Alzheimer’s disease: the production of amyloid plaques.
A long way to go
It will not be until 2017 or 2018 that may have this vaccine on the market, said Pilar de la Huerta, advises Araclon Biotech company conducting the research. Initial studies seek to prove that the vaccine does not cause side effects.
Tests in Spanish patients begin after it has been found in preclinical studies that administration of the vaccine in animals at doses much higher than those used in humans is not toxic.
In Phase I, the results could be the end of 2011, will be launched in two studies, each with a different formulation to see which works best in humans.