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Use of methylene blue derivatives for Alzheimer's treatment has been definitively ruled out.[0] [0] https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/first-pha
by ink_13 7y ago
Use of methylene blue derivatives for Alzheimer's treatment has been definitively ruled out.[0]
[0] https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/first-phase-3-trial-tau-drug-lmtm-did-not-work-period https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/first-phas...
- narrator 7y agoThey published an article after this on it, showing good results in 2017[1] with a large author list, and they have a new trial underway[2]. Would be a ridiculously cheap therapy. [1] https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad170560 https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-... [2]https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/trx0237-mild-alzheimers https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/trx0237-m...
- eloff 7y agoI wonder how early one would need to start treatment to have an effect, and if you could somehow start it a decade or more before symptoms begin, would it maybe prevent onset all together? Since it begins 20 years before the onset of symptoms.