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What ever happened to the focused ultrasound treatment that is supposed to break up protein clumps in the brain and alleviate symptoms?
Alzheimer’s, a soul destroying experience for anyone who is experiencing it or knows someone who is. Any step forward is a big relief for so many. >

Jeez $27k for several more months of proper cognition and almost a 1/5 chance of causing your brain to bleed.
It's hard to put a price tag on more time as oneself, and more time with loved ones but jeez, that's a tough sell. >

But I guess it shows what is possible. Maybe my family won't roll the dice (I am all about informed consent) but I can definitely imagine that on 5 years this will be down to a more cost effective price and the brain bleeding side effect will be more well known and less risky. >

What ever happened to the focused ultrasound treatment that is supposed to break up protein clumps in the brain and alleviate symptoms? >

Drug companies don't want to cure anything, no profit in that. >

Alzheimer’s, a soul destroying experience for anyone who is experiencing it or knows someone who is. Any step forward is a big relief for so many. >

My grandmother >

What ever happened to the focused ultrasound treatment that is supposed to break up protein clumps in the brain and alleviate symptoms? >

Probably nothing, because the plaques are a symptom and not a cause of alzheimers. It's like trying to cure the flu by taking cough medicine. >

Jeez $27k for several more months of proper cognition and almost a 1/5 chance of causing your brain to bleed.
It's hard to put a price tag on more time as oneself, and more time with loved ones but jeez, that's a tough sell. >

But I guess it shows what is possible. Maybe my family won't roll the dice (I am all about informed consent) but I can definitely imagine that on 5 years this will be down to a more cost effective price and the brain bleeding side effect will be more well known and less risky. >

Drug companies don't want to cure anything, no profit in that. >

That’s tinfoil hat talk. What you’re describing is quackery and it’s been flat out illegal for over a century. 
A drug that’s effective is completely profitable because there’s never any lack of patients presenting with the complaint the medication is meant to treat. 
And there are plenty of chronic conditions
You flat out cannot cure with existing medical
Science, far far beyond what you would need profit wise to having to resort  to  some sort of bonkers scheme to make drugs that don’t actually work. And then somehow fly that through FDA trials. 
On top of which you have to be worried about mass tort lawyers capable of suing you out of billions of dollars if you produce a bad drug. 
This is an old, tired, folksy common sense bullshit ignorant line of thought that does not hold up to any sort of scrutiny. There is profit enough in making medications that work well. 
Not the every med works well for every patient.  You can go through 3-4 that just don’t work well for you before finding a formulation that does. There is always a market for new meds, Always. 
If you’re going to tilt at windmills, then attack
The real demonstrable problem. 
The factual, unquestionable issue with the pharmaceutical industry is not how good their drugs are, it is how much of the cost is passed onto the consumer vs the obscene amount of money they’re making in profits.
Take a look at their insane amounts of advertising, or their constant courting of doctors trying to get them to proscribe the medication in question.
These are not the actions of of a poor industry suffering for cash, no matter how much they cry about how expensive research is. >

Nothing is cured nowadays its all managed. >

You don’t seem to understand the difference between chronic and acute disease. >

Reject medicine, return to monke >

Alzheimer’s, a soul destroying experience for anyone who is experiencing it or knows someone who is. Any step forward is a big relief for so many. >

My grandmother