Alzheimer’s at the Crossroads

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Unfortunately, no cure for Alzeheimer's disease is at hand. But increased collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, basic researchers, and clinical researchers can bring us closer to developing an optimum treatment, as well as effective prevention strategies.

STOCKHOLM – “Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease,” said Peter Latham, a nineteenth-century English physician. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is certainly no exception: changes in the brain occur decades before symptoms begin to show; there is no validated biological diagnostic test; and there are only imprecise measures of correlation between AD’s clinical and neuropathological progression. There is no cure yet, but, unlike just ten years ago, treatment of its symptoms is now widely available.

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