Alzheimer ‘Breakthrough’ Tempts Families to Improvise Latest Hope for the Disease Is a Drug With a Commonly Available Ingredient (via ABC News)

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By LAUREN COX

ABC News Medical Unit

July 31, 2008 —

What would you do if had an incurable disease and heard that something simple and common may help — a chemical found at a pet store, or in an allergy drug, or a breakthrough injection a man in California developed?

It’s the sort of dilemma Alan Romantowski, a former airline pilot, faces with each news story about Alzheimer’s disease treatments.

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