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Cures for all that might one day ail ya
7:07AM ON
01/11/2008
BY
Dave Segal
One of the advantages of being young and stupid in such a go, Go, GO! world is that you can pretend that by the time you’re all old and craggly, the wizards will have cured all the scary degenerative ickies that await on the other end — cancer, Alzheimer’s, baldness, etc.
And then, one day, you’re in your late twenties, and not much seems to have changed over the previous couple of decades. (Except that a few of your contemporaries have been stricken by cancer and/or baldness.)
But as somebody who saw 1 or 2 grandparents succumb to Alzheimer’s, this is pleasant news:
Drug “can reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms in minutes”
A drug used for arthritis can reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s “in minutes”. It appears to tackle one of the main features of the disease - inflammation in the brain.
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