Drugs once hailed as the holy grail of dementia treatment put patients at high risk of life-threatening side effects while having ‘no clinical benefits’, leading scientists warn.
Alzheimer’s experts are now calling for an immediate halt to any further trials into the drugs, which they say may even pose a danger to sufferers.
The medicines, designed to combat the degenerative effects of the debilitating disease, have been shown to cause swelling and bleeding in the brain. These serious and even