Alzheimer’s Medications May Be A Variety Of Drugs
You have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and you want to find a medication to help. You get the bad news from your doctor that there is no cure available today, but that researchers are experimenting with a combination of different drugs to help slow down the progress of this disease. Depending upon which web site you do research on, you will see a variety of different articles touting the potential benefits of different experimental drugs being tested. If you dig deep enough, you might even find places in foreign countries where they make claims that they have a cure or that they can definitely slow down the progress of this terrible disease. In many instances this is a scam where these claims can not be substantiated and they are out to get money from you for this 'cure' that will likely not help at all.
Alzheimer's medications are experimental in the United States. The information you find will tell that there are about 20 potential drugs that are being used in clinical trials. In addition, there are other drugs that require the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before they can be widely distributed for public use. What does this mean for you, a new diagnosed Alzheimer's patient? Unfortunately or fortunately, depending upon how you look at this, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires, in many instances, years of testing and clinical trials before a drug company can even request approval for their new drug. This is one of their primary duties and they take their role in approving drugs very seriously. They do not want to approve drugs that will harm or kill someone. On one hand, it is hard to wait so long for potentially new and useful drugs to be available, but, this agency is responsible for ensuring the safety of the public from inappropriate claims and harmful drugs. Do not think that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies are not looking closely at the claims being made in other countries. Researchers around the world want to find a drug or combination of drugs that will help with this disease. You know that if there was a breakthrough anywhere in the world that the media would jump onto this and be reporting this daily with updates on what is happening to ensure that everyone who needs these Alzheimer's medication would be able to get them here. The medications are out there that can delay the symptoms of Alzheimer's. All we need is for researchers to find the right combination or to develop a new form of medication that can and will help people who are suffering from this disease. |