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Statins Might Stave Off Alzheimer’s

TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — Treatment with a cholesterol-lowering drug might protect against Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Scientists have long known that nerve cells in people with Alzheimer’s die prematurely because they are strongly overstimulated, a process called excitotoxicity. Theorizing that the cholesterol drug lovastatin might ward off cell death, researchers at the [...]

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