Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease Has New Immune Approach
| New hope for a much needed new approach for tackling Alzheimer’s disease will be discussed in detail this week at the inaugural Targeting Alzheimer’s with Novel Therapeutics conference, to be held as part of the 8th annual World Pharmaceutical Congress in Philadelphia on June 10 and 11. On the second day of this conference, after presentations by researchers from Abbott Laboratories, Medivation, Epix Pharmaceuticals, the Buck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, and others, Edward Tobinick MD, Director of the Institute for Neurological Research® (INR®), a private medical group, inc. in Los Angeles, will present the latest data on a revolutionary new immune approach for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. | |||
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The proof-of-concept of these novel methods which Dr. Tobinick invented (8, 9), which include both perispinal and epidural etanercept for treatment of sciatica (see INR sciatica website) (8), are now supported by additional, independent studies from academic centers, including a new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial from Johns Hopkins and Walter Reed Army Medical Center (10, 11).
The prospect of a new, immune-based approach for treatment of Alzheimer’s is exciting. Recent reports of the ability of etanercept to penetrate rapidly into the cerebrospinal fluid within the brain in animal studies now provide new insight into the potential mechanisms underlying the rapid clinical effects of etanercept in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (12). Patient treatment is currently available at the Institute in Los Angeles, and at the Institute’s new office in Newport Beach, California. Further information is available on the website of the INR, at Institute for Neurological Research in Los Angeles website. |
Alzheimer's, Health and Wellness | admin | June 8, 2009 | 
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