This article talks about the currently approved Alzheimers drugs. I was thrown off by the fact that there are only 4 drugs that have been approved to try to stop something that is afflicting 26 million people. I expected there to be more for some reason.
Aricept is made by Pfizer, Razadyne is made by Ortho-McNeil Neurologics (part of Johnson and Johnsons mighty empire,) Exelon is made in a patch form by Novartis, and Namenda is made by Forest Labs. From reading their side effects most of these drugs sound like some nasty stuff. In any case I could easily see one of these companies going after Rember or TauRx just to keep their share of the market.
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