Researcher Optimistic Alzheimer's Can Be Delayed By Five Years

Though no new drugs have been developed to treat Alzheimer's disease since 2003, there's hope on the horizon, according to Kathleen Welsh-Bohmer, director of the Bryan Alzheimer's Center at Duke University.

The greatest advance in the past 10 years has been in the ability to diagnose the disease "reliably and early" thanks to improved imaging technology and a better understanding of the biology of the disease, she said. From that has come the possibility of intervening early enough in the disease to delay symptoms.

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