An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays.
The early results — a scientific first — were published Wednesday even as study participants worried that politics could cut their access to a possible lifeline.
“It’s still a study but it has given me an extension to my life that I never banked on having,” said Jake Heinrichs of New York City.
Now 50, Heinrichs has been treated in that study for more than a decade and remains symptom-free despite inheriting an Alzheimer’s-causing gene
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