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Scientists at the Institute for Neurological Research at the University of California have tested an injection which treats the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease "in minutes".

The drug is injected into the spinal column and the patient is then tilted to encourage the drug to flow to the brain. The clinic released video footage of the patients being treated to add credence to their claims, in one video, a man recognised his wife just minutes after the treatment and offered her a hug. He not been able to recognise her in years.
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25 responses // Medical discovery of the decade?

  • Simply astounding. My great grandfather passed away due to alzheimers and had this treatment been around perhaps he would have been lucid in his last years or still be with us today.
    ocanada
  • On paper, this story is amazing. i'd love to see the video of this man's amazing spinal injection. However, I'm slightly skeptical that this won't have a lasting effect outside of the immediate effect following the injection.
    mconway1
  • This is wonderful if it works!
    CarolynGillis
  • Wow, this is amazing if true.
    Brentehuffman
  • Truly remarkable. Now, how long does the treatment last, and when can we start injecting this stuff into old peoples' spines all over the world?
    Adumbration
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    as amazing as it is, it is just another treatment which could have been a cure. now instead we will have pharmaceutical companies buying up the rights to it and they will have another long line of customers lined up to get their mandatory yet brief injections to keep the symptoms at bay.

    lets find some cures universities, not just more treatments which keep us as slaves to drug companies
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    Prodius
  • This is such a beautiful story. Having seen several great people live out their days without even having a sense of their own mortality, I welcome this not as only something which brings back memories of life but also brings back the humanity in these people who have been robbed of the HUMAN experience well before their bodies were ready to follow.
    ToroSings
  • I seriously doubt this is possible. Neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's are not so easily cured or treated. Granted, Alzheimer's has a research fund dedicated to these very objectives, but this is just to miraculous to be true. Medical advances come in small increments that are all highly publicized. If this was true it would be the headline for every paper in the world.
    Neurozool
  • It's hard to believe, but then when lithium was given as 'salt' to patients with certain mental problems, their symptoms disappeared and a new treatment was born. Stranger things have happened.
    patsarts
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9aZPbYcIX8
    Less aggressive and far more pleasant, cannabis.
    Vierotchka
  • I agree with Prodius. We need more cures and less treatments. Pharmecuticals companies make far too much money for just patching us back up for a few miles instead of getting rid our our ailments outright. We deserve more than daily pill regiments that cost thousands of dollars just for our health and well-being.
    lifestudentno83
  • ...also I keep posting this like I have OCD..but I keep hoping it will help people.
    This is http://www.askapatient.com

    Look at it carefully.

    It is a resource for us people that lets us voice our experiences with Drugs.

    I am not against this drug and applaud the brilliant scientists that discovered this...but we need to be informed about all types of cures and prevention alike.
    CarolynGillis
  • Can't wait till this is a topic for finding a "cure" for Cancer and AIDS.
    Neghie
  • Is it awesome that a drug like this which supposedly gives someone afflicted with this horrible disease back their memories and personality? Yes. However, as Prodius said, there needs to be so much more of a push to find CURES for these ailments, rather than the ball and chain that is medication.
    topher2006
  • The Alzheimer's association says:

    This possible treatment strategy is very preliminary. This newly published case study is of one subject. In addition, one of the lead investigators has stock in the company that produces the drug and has a number of patent positions in the area. All of this strengthens the need for independent confirmation to establish this finding.

    http://www.alz.org/news_and_events_12660.asp
    uroborus8
  • http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9A551EBE29D5F2F...
    Neghie, with regard to cancer and possibly AIDS, and a vast spectrum of other illnesses, this playlist (7 videos, at the end of each video, find the next instalment in the menu at the bottom of the video screen).
    Vierotchka
  • I agree that we're getting more an more enslaved to pharmaceutical corporations and that cures should be more sought that just a quick treatment. I also think that's a political problem yet to be solved.

    BUT medically for the families of those affected by the disease and the ones infected themselves can now possibly experience a conversation between each other as father and daughter/ or mother and son, as oppose to strangers.
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    now that's something to look forward to.
    MaRibElfalcon76
  • I'm going to come down and the side of hope. I hope it's all true and I hope it is the doorway to a cure.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • I have to say that as much as I'd like to believe in this treatment, it's true that if it were this miraculous, it would be plastered on every news station. However, I want to be the optimist in this situation and say that this a huge step foward in at least alleviating the pain of this horrible disease.
    Peewong
  • http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/49077/
    "we need to be informed about all types of cures and prevention alike"

    actually Prodius is correct when he says..."lets find some cures universities, not just more treatments which keep us as slaves to drug companies"and it doesn't discredit what you are saying either Carolyn, but the real problem comes when you go out there looking for $$$ to sponsor your research at the university.

    The vast majority of research $$$ at the investigator level come with the stipulation that the end result lead to a marketable drug. Even the Gates foundation has been financing with the profit factor end result factored into the $$$ they are willing to support research with. For many scientists, you either take the drug companies $$$ and promise them a drug, or you don't get to do your research at all...a Catch 22.

    The federal government is too busy taking our tax dollars and funneling them into warfare technology to put the money out for the kind of research that produces cures instead of drugs.

    For the fifth straight year Bush has sent the National Institutes of Health a flat budget with no increases for funding research in the area of public health. Yet another way he steals from the public and gives to his rich cronies.
    Incredulous
  • What about insurance companies, their cut on all of this or will this be a strictly out of pocket expense.The co-pays on some treatments for diseases are extremely expensive as it is!
    cibalin
  • Perhaps my grandma will realize that she divorced my grandpa for no reason now.
    Cuddlebones
  • If this IS true, it's easily the greatest thing I've heard about in a long time.

    I can remember my mom driving me to school in the fifth grade and having to wait at an intersection for close to half an hour because a man with Alzheimer's was standing in the middle of the road completely ignorant to everything that was going on around him.

    It was a very strange thing for me to comprehend at the time - but it's definitely in my opinion one of the most threatening diseases someone could be diagnosed with - and this is great news.
    LaWingman
  • I don't know how promising this will turn out to be, but I do hope that someday we can stop pretending to be the world police and bring our billions home to be invested where we need it. let's cure cancer, alzheimer's, aids, etc. let's create green technology, let's invest in America for once.
    thedismembermentplan
  • thedismembermentplan, I second that.
    Marilynn_Murray

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