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On July 11, Dr Daniel Skovronsky is going to present his surprising discovery of finding a dye and brain scan that can show the plague in the brains of people carrying this disease.
This has been reported on the front page of The New York Times today and if confirmed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration then this start-up company might have overcome one of the biggest obstacles in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.
The disease is named after a German scientist Alois Alzheimer who discovered in 1906. This disease is not painful in usual manner for the affected person but actually makes the life of diseased person pure misery. It affects the brain and gradually weakens the memory of the patient whose short term memory is affected severely and the patient forgets to remember about the whereabouts, recent activities like eating, washing, sleeping even walking if taking bed rest for several days.
So far, no vaccine has been effective to cure Alzheimer’s disease and it seems a long road ahead before it could be cured through therapy and really efficient vaccine.
Approximately, there are 26 million patients of Alzheimer’s and they are believed to reach horrifying figure of 100 million by the end of 2050.
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