Thursday, April 29, 2010

NIH Panel Provides No New Clues for Unraveling Alzheimer's Disease from MedPage Today

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By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today

More than a century after German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer identified the cognitively devastating disease that affects as many as 5.3 million people in the U.S. alone, an expert panel has issued a decidedly bleak report on the state of the science of Alzheimer's disease.

The independent panel -- brought together by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week -- determined that the causes of Alzheimer's disease are still unknown and that no reliable evidence has shown that anything can prevent the disease or stop it from progressing.
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