An Alzheimer's patient improved "within minutes" of being injected with a new drug in a scientific breakthrough against the disease, it has emerged. After being injected in the spine with a treatment for arthritis called etanercept, the 89-year-old could remember the date and his doctor's name and say where he was - which he had been unable to do only 10 minutes earlier.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
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I hope the work documented in the study develops into something that can be widely applied to Alzheimer's patients. We'll see.
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