A first-in-the-world clinical trial taking place at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem will directly test whether the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) TB vaccine (see here previously) should be widely administered in the fight against Alzheimer’s. https://www.hadassah.org/story/hadassah-clinical-trial-tests-tuberculosis-vaccine-to-prevent-alzheimers https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-829471

Israeli scientists have studied 1,371 bladder cancer patients receiving treatment at Hebrew University’s Hadassah Medical Center. They found that those who had received the BCG vaccination against tuberculosis were half as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as those who hadn’t. https://www.afhu.org/tag/alzheimers/ … Continue reading →