"iDoctor – Medical Blog"

Publication year: 2009
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 167-185
Marwan N., Sabbagh

Objective: The aim of this article was to provide a survey of the clinical development of pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).Methods: A search of PubMed to identify pertinent English-language literature was conducted using the terms Alzheimer’s disease AND clinical trials (2003–2008), dementia AND prevention AND clinical trials (2003–2008), and the chemical names of all compounds mentioned in articles on new drugs for AD published since 2005. www.ClinicalTrials.gov was searched for relevant trials. Abstracts of the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD) were reviewed for relevance, as were pharmaceutical company and AD advocacy Web sites. Articles selected for review were…

This entry was posted on Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm and is filed under Health news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.