MSNBC ran an article in June titled Milkshake drug nourishes Alzheimer's brains discussing how "Drinking a milkshake-style medicine at breakfast seems to feed brain cells starved from Alzheimer's disease". The milkshake drug is called Ketasyn, made by Accera, and "offers an alternate food source to rev up those hungry neurons" according to researchers. Accera said the shake is a a co-therapy and not a drug intended to stop Alzheimer’s.
Most of the other promising AD drugs (designed to stop AD) in Pharma pipelines focus on getting rid of the sticky plaque called beta-amyloid that clog up patients’ brains by degrading the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain. The article on MSNBC discusses some of these drugs in the pipeline.
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