Boston Globe story focuses on Cure Alzheimer’s Fund study that shows mice given an anesthetic widely used in surgery on people suffered changes to their brains similar to the damage found in Alzheimer’s disease. The results by researchers from Dr. Rudy Tanzi of Massachusetts General Hospital was published  in the online Annals of Neurology. The results need to be tested in humans, the authors caution, but the findings raise questions about administering this kind of anesthesia to elderly patients with or without Alzheimer’s.

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