[Someone1234]

But would it ultimately not matter if you aren't cured? To use your analogy, tylenol takes away some of the symptoms, if this takes away the symptoms of Alzheimer/Parkinson's from an outside observer's perspective you're "cured." Even if in reality you aren't and have to take this for the rest of your life.

[knodi123]

The analogy is flawed. These proteins might be a cause of the symptoms, or an effect of the disease, but we don't know that they're related. A better analogy might be, that this could be as effective as trying to eliminate a pigeon infestation by sweeping up their feathers and scrubbing out the crap.

[dumbmatter]

Yes, except other drugs designed to clear the plaques have been tested and they've all shown no reduction in symptoms. So my flu analogy was not great :)

But it's absolutely possible that the prior drugs were all tested wrong or didn't quite do what we thought they did. That is not sarcasm, sadly.

[tbrock]

The drug companies would love that outcome wouldn't they:

Sick for the rest of your life === $$$

[dumbmatter]

People with Alzheimer's would love it too, because the status quo is that your memory deteriorates and then you die, and there's basically nothing you can do about it.

[jwhitlark]

As the saying goes: "Despite the increasing cost of living, do you notice how popular the option remains?"

[dasloop]

instead of dead or mentally disabled?