South Florida is the first place in the nation to start advanced clinical trials for a new potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The treatment is an immunization which is administered much like chemotherapy that uses a patient’s immune system to fight the disease. Brain Matters Research, a private for-profit Delray Beach company, enrolled its first patient last week and is looking to sign up about 100 more. The immunization, gradually injected into the patient’s bloodstream with a needle, is one of several experimental treatments that use antibodies to attack beta amyloid protein plaques that form in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
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