Health News from Medical News Today: Common, Inherited Dementia May Respond To Cancer Drug

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Common, Inherited Dementia May Respond To Cancer Drug 1 Jun 2011, 3:00 pm A drug already approved for people with cancer shows early potential as a therapy for a common form of dementia, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report. "Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) holds promise as a first-generation drug for the prevention and treatment of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disease for which there is no treatment," said Dr. Joachim Herz, director of the Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases and the study's senior author... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.