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RE: FDA approved the first major Alzheimer’s treatment in 18 years — what that means for your loved ones fighting the disease - MarketWatch
According to MarketWatch magazine, the treatment still does not provide security and the treatment is expensive in my opinion, I think that a 5% effectiveness is a very low rate for a drug since this treatment is for the first phase of Alzheimer's, I have always thought we human beings in technology are advancing enormously but in medicine we are regressing every day.
Thanks for the reply. I agree that with the high cost and low expected rate of improvement, the gains are limited from this treatment.
Early technologies are often expensive, though. Hopefully, they'll be able to make improvements and reduce costs as time goes on.
Given the slow overall rate of progress, it seems that working on Alzheimers Disease is a very hard problem.
You are absolutely right, that is why both the brain and the heart are the two difficult organs to treat, cure or operate since our existence depends on them.