Do we really understand Alzheimer's disease?
In 2013, Alzheimer's will cost the nation $203 billion. This number is expected to rise to $1.2 trillion by 2050. There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease (AD); available treatments offer relatively small symptomatic benefit but remain palliative in nature. Current treatments can be divided into pharmaceutical, psychosocial and caregiving. In light of the extraordinary medical, social and economic burden associated with AD, including tens of millions of patients and affected families and huge economic losses estimated at over two hundred billions dollars per year in the United States alone, it would make sense, from a scientific perspective, that all new hypothesis in the field are timely, openly and fully evaluated. More to come...