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Alzheimer's treatments: What's on the horizon?
Speeding treatment development
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Taking aim at plaques
Keeping tau from tangling
Reducing inflammation
Researching insulin resistance
Studying the heart-head connection
Hormones
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Taking aim at plaques
Keeping tau from tangling
Reducing inflammation
Researching insulin resistance
Studying the heart-head connection
Hormones
Reducing inflammation
Alzheimer's causes chronic, low-level brain cell inflammation. Researchers are studying ways to treat the processes that lead to inflammation in Alzheimer's disease. The medicine sargramostim (Leukine) is currently in research. The medicine may stimulate the immune system to protect the brain from harmful proteins.
