HIV drugs may help people with Alzheimer’s and Down syndrome, says new hypothesis on Alzheimer’s origins

HIV drugs may help people with Alzheimer's and Down syndrome, says new hypothesis on Alzheimer's origins

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A major new study on Alzheimer?s disease provides previously unknown evidence of how the brain-robbing illness may originate.

Moreover, it proposes that certain HIV drugs called reverse transcriptase inhibitors could immediately be repurposed for Alzheimer?s patients. These drugs might also ward…