http://www.lbnelert.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Screen-shot-2012-05-16-at-10.13.25-AM.pngNEW DRUG TRIAL SEEKS TO STOP ALZHEIMER’S BEFORE IT STARTS: In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer’s, people who are genetically guaranteed to develop the disease — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will for the first time be given a drug intended to stop it, federal officials announced Tuesday. Experts say the study will be one of the few ever conducted to test prevention treatments for any genetically predestined disease. For Alzheimer’s, the trial is unprecedented, “the first to focus on people who are cognitively normal but at very high risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.