Finally! The article states that the drug could be on the market by 2012 - not bad... I've had family members & friends who have been affected by this devestating disease and it truly is tragic...

Alzheimer's 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years'

This is a great breakthrough.

Very exciting news. I read the comments after the article and it appears that many Brits are doubtful that their national health care system will pay for it, as it's going to be expensive. Keeping my fingers crossed that they do.

Wow... I didn't see that... You know, that goes to show there are some definite flaws in a national health care system...

Very exciting news, now if we can only get the cure for Cancer.

Agreed. Two very serious devestating diseases... Along with AIDS... Which I read something about last week about problems with funding & trials & now it looks like they are even farther from a cure??? I can't remember the details (why do I have this short term memory loss lately???) but it wasn't good news...

Well we have come so far in the research and cure field for AIDS and Cancer. In the 20's, 30's and 40's it was TB/polio that had the highest death rate. Now we have vaccines and are much more informative about the diseases. In the 80's we had the AIDS epidemic. Now there is the cocktail to keep people with HIV from getting AIDS. We were educated on it. Now it's cancer. We are advanced into finding cures, we have learned the precautions to take. Breast /Colon Cancer does not mean a death sentence. Gardasil injections claim to protect our daughters from getting certain types of cancer caused from the HPV virus. Drug Discoveries and Biotechnology are advancing. It will be a new disease 20 years from now. But I am glad that we are breaking through on Alzheimers.

I agree moms, but until we have a cure in hand, we have not come far enough. Even with precautions and advancements, people are still being diagnosed and dying of these diseases every day.

SC-agreed....we need to work on the healthcare system too!!!!!!!!!

I heard they were forcing students to take that gardisil at some schools. There is no way I'm taking a new vaccine that hasn't been rigorously tested for long term problems that MAY or MAY NOT prevent some cancer which isn't all that common. I bet the shots are expensive, and I bet you have to get more than one.

College likes to tell you that you should really get a meningitis shot, which is $200 and more than one shot if I remember correctly.

Gardasil is a series of (3) injections. All at separate times. We have a $10 co pay so it is'nt bad but I received the explanation of benefits today and according to my insurance company (1) injection is $128.27. There are many mixed feelings about Gardasil but my Doctors office highly recommends it. In fact my Doctor even gave it to her 12 year old daughter.
btw, my daughter says it is a lot like a tetanus shot, her arm was very sore that night and the next morning.

I thought it was a requirement that you had to be inoculated for meningitis before college admission?

I had to take middle son to get his sports physical this am and took the opportunity to ask the pediatrician about the meningitis shot. Some colleges do require it IF your living on campus. They do encourage you to get it. But like you said, ITH, insurance companies are not covering it and it is quite expensive.

I would definitely pay the money just for piece of mind.

Heres more good medical news!!!!!

Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV

http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/sto...h.1971ecbd.html

I got the meningitis shot, it wasn't required and I lived on campus, I had to sign a waiver saying I didn't get it if I wasn't going to get it.

The gardisil sounds wayyyyy too expensive, and I don't know that it's as beneficial as the meningitis shot, thanks for the info though

My tetanus shot didn't hurt me at all. I was built up to believe that it would be extremely painful so I was upset before they shot me, but I felt nothing, thankfully.