Pain Meds Provide No Relief to Alzheimer’s.

It was thought that the Celebrex, an arthritis drug and Aleve, an over-the-counter painkiller might help prevent Alzheimer’s disease or at least slow mental decline in older people. But new studies show that taking these medications provides no benefit on a person’s thinking skills.

In fact, government experiments with these two drugs wsa stopped back in 2004 because of other studies indicating that both Celebrex and Aleve increased heart risks.

However, the data collected from the government experiments did provide information about how the drugs acted on the memory and thinking. These findings will appear in July’s Archives of Neurology.

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