The Guardian: An Alzheimer’s drug has been shown to target the most visible indication of the disease in the brain and is raising hopes that it could lead to an effective treatment; the tablet is produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck A small trial of the drug was primarily aimed at assessing safety, but the findings suggest it effectively “switched off” the production of toxic amyloid proteins that lead to the sticky plaques seen in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

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