It is not every day that the popular (19 million page view a day, a few more than our website) Drudgereport links to an article about a psoriasis treatment, but this article is pretty interesting, even though it is about a single patient. Here’s the article:
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California injected etanercept … into the spine of an 81-year-old man who is in the early stages of the disease.Before the drug, he performed poorly on cognitive tests and could not name his doctors or remember where he was.
But ten minutes after it was injected he could name both of these.
The results are published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
Etanercept is a popular biologic treatment for moderate to severe psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and other diseases. It is a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blocker. Let’s hope a more rigorous (more than 1 patient!) study shows it helps with Alzheimer’s.
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