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I would guess that there are a lot of variables to eliminate too - eg is it possible that just having a surgery and recovering from anaesthesia can yield some of these benefits in some circumstances? Given that we don’t really understand how most inhaled anaesthetics fully work
I've witnessed dementia patients take a fall, and then be dramatically more confused the next couple days. I've also seen them get some kind of social exposure, sunshine, exercise, etc. and present better for several days afterwards. Measuring "how well is the mind working" isn't like reading a digital meter.
It did cure some people, it yielded some improvements on average but it did yield extreme improvements in some people. That part isn't controversial.
> (and even if it were noticed: periods of lucidity are not rare. It would probably be ignored)
A year of being able to walk and talk normally when a patient could barely function at all would be noticed for sure.
Being from Scotland I'd trust an NHS evaluation more than random news reports.
The government shouldn't be in the business of telling people what they can do, or have done, to their own bodies.
And the surgeon is in prison according to the article.
If your Alzheimer's is caused by poor drainage due to a one off blockage this would solve it completely, but if its due to something else this would probably just be temporary as the article notes.
Huh. You completely made that up. Where in the article does it say that? Here's the truth from the article:
> Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings,
It is the hallmark of a lowlife to suppress research.
You need to think more.
In particular, I wish there was more detail on the 100-cohort study where patients experienced "modest improvements" and how that's calculated. Is that average increase of X points on an MMSE, etc.
In my experience in my family, dementia is not a linear slide. My 85yo mother with Alzheimer's will sometimes present very well and you have to really get into conversational details to notice the dementia. On other days, she'll pick up a paperback and try to use it as a phone. Some days she's steady on her feet, some days coordinating all of those muscles is just too much.
Over the course of a couple years, you can track the decline, but it's not a straight line. "Modest improvements" makes me concerned that they measured a valley to a peak. It's only 6 months since the 100-cohort study.
> The rapid adoption, in the absence of hard evidence, prompted Chinese regulators to intervene. Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings, rather than the ad hoc use that had proliferated previously. And Xie, the pioneer of the technique, has been in detention since September for undisclosed reasons.
Seems you missed out on 10-15 years of development. Regulation strictness these days rival western.