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Alzheimer’s Disease is robbing Bonnie Lowe of her memories. But the 89-year-old is not giving up.

“I want to be like I used to be,” said Bonnie. She joined a new study and will soon start taking an experimental drug called Bapineuzamab, basically an Alzheimer’s vaccine.

Currently the only way to treat Alzheimer’s is by using memory boosting medications. But unfortunately the drugs don’t do anything to correct the underlying cause of the disease. That’s what this new vaccine type therapy hopes to do. Dr. Bruce Kohrman is studying the drug. Read more

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