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Alzheimer Drugs Don't Work

  • April 07, 2004

About 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and many patients and their families see the five drugs now available to treat it as their only defense against its relentless destruction of the mind. Patients usually take one drug. Each costs about $120 a month. They are meant to aid thinking and memory, though they do not change the underlying course of the illness. A million Americans take them, at an overall cost of $1.2 billion a year. Four drugs - Aricept, Exelon,...