Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis said Wednesday they have discovered an antibody that removes harmful brain plaques associated with increased risk for Alzheimer s disease and strokes.
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In the year since the Covid pandemic began, glimmers of hope have come on the horizon. Vaccines are on the way, and the percentage of patients who die has fallen in many places as doctors have learned how to save the sickest patients.
These successes are not enough and they overshadow the more limited progress made toward developing drugs that could prevent mild cases of the disease from worsening. Such treatments are urgently needed because many people will get sick with Covid until vaccines induce enough herd immunity in the population to keep the infections under control.
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