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Heart Meds May Work Against Alzheimer's

Anti-cholesterol drugs appear to combat brain disease

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 28, 2007 7:48 AM CDT

(Newser) – The best medicine for Alzheimer's disease may be a heart drug, researchers say, and the discovery may shed light on the way the devastating disorder acts on the brain. Subjects taking popular statin-based cholesterol meds developed fewer protein deposits in their brains, reports Time, possibly... Read full story »

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