Best 2021 Medical Breakthroughs And Treatments to Beat Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Diabetes & More – Good News Network

Whether a deadly disease like cancer and Alzheimer’s or a lifelong affliction like diabetes, eczema, or arthritis, 2021 has been a year of breakthroughs and advancements.

Beyond COVID-19 and the developments of the mRNA vaccines created to halt the pandemic, medical researchers around the world continued to focus on the long-entrenched problems that have plagued our health for centuries.

Here are some of the top Health stories from 2021:

Routinely polled as one of the most-feared diseases, Alzheimer’s researchers have hailed several achievements this year.

One fascinating focus has been on prevention, or what contributes to the disease.

Bret Kavanaugh

An End to Alzheimer’s? The MEND Protocol of Precision Lifestyle Changes Leads to Compelling Clinical Trials

A neuroscientist who authored a book called The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s is not so much focused on drugs as he is focused on brain prevention and is achieving results never before seen in the history of Alzheimer’s treatment. (Read more)

Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days, Suggesting Lost Cognitive Ability is Not Permanent

The findings of a drug that seemed to restore normal cognition in a variety of cases ranging from traumatic brain injury, to noise-related hearing loss, to neurodegenerative disease seem to suggest, its creators write, that age-related cognitive loss may be down to a physiological “blockage” rather than permanent damage. (Read More)

4 Common Medicines Have Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice

As seen many times before, sometimes the best new cure is an old drug. Four drugs—two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, along with two anti-hypertensives, proved effective at reversing Alzheimer’s disease and neutralizing symptoms in mice suffering from various stages of the illness. (Read More)

National Cancer Institute

As long as there’s lifeforms, there will be cancer, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn how to treat it, strike at the root cause, and hopefully turn at least some forms of it from one of the major killers to a minor inconvenience.

Immunotherapy Drugs So Effective that Tumors Disappear in Weeks for Head and Neck Cancer Patients in Landmark Trial

With 12,000 Britons diagnosed with head and neck cancer every year, the results of a phase III trial that saw complete eradication in some patients, and side-effect-free life extension in others, has the country excited. (Read More)

Prostate Cancer Breakthrough: Protein That Stops Tumor Growth is Discovered

Discovering an RNA molecule that regulates a key driver in the growth of prostate cancer cells is noteworthy because prostate cancer is one of the most common in men around the world, and because most drugs work for a short …….

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