{"id":11417,"date":"2019-11-06T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11417"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:27:13","slug":"explainedhow-china-proposes-to-treat-alzheimers-with-new-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedhow-china-proposes-to-treat-alzheimers-with-new-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained:How China proposes to treat Alzheimer\u2019s with new drug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,China has approved the world\u2019s first multi-targeting and carbohydrate-based drug GV-971 for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Drug GV-971:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The drug has been extracted from brown algae and can treat mild to moderate forms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and improve cognition.<\/li><li>It is the world&#8217;s first multi targeting drug.The drug can be taken orally by the patients.<\/li><li>Multi-target drugs hit several targets in the body which is often necessary to do in order to yield a therapeutic effect in complex diseases like Parkinson\u2019s or Alzheimer\u2019s.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This is different from most drugs which target only a single biological substance, like a protein or enzyme.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Alzheimer&#8217;s disease:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a progressive brain disorder that typically affects people older than 65.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The disease destroys brain cells and nerves and disrupts the message carrying neurotransmitters.<\/li><li>There is no treatment that cures Alzheimer\u2019s disease or alters the disease process in the brain.Most drugs being developed try to slow down or stop the progression of the disease.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,China has approved the world\u2019s first multi-targeting and carbohydrate-based drug GV-971 for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Facts: About Drug GV-971: The drug has been extracted from brown algae and can treat mild to moderate forms of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and improve cognition. It is the world&#8217;s first multi targeting drug.The drug can be taken orally by the patients.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedhow-china-proposes-to-treat-alzheimers-with-new-drug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained:How China proposes to treat Alzheimer\u2019s with new drug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2358,2353,1083],"class_list":["post-11417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-china","tag-drug","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704767448},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}