New Drug Candidate May Halt Decline of Alzheimer’s Sufferers

A new drug candidate may be the first capable of stopping the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer’s disease, based on the results of a study recently published on www.plosone.org.

The drug, referred to as J147, improved memory and prevented brain damage caused by the disease when given to mice with Alzheimer’s. Developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the compound could be tested for treatment of the disease in humans in the near future. For more information, click here to read the full release.