To suggest, based on this study, that coffeedrinking may offer some preventive benefit against this implacable disease is far-fetched, to say the least.
One suspects that these two papers were placed at the front of the current issue of the journal because they hold out the prospect that a common behavior, coffeedrinking, might have some protective efficacy against two serious illnesses.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says while sleep is the best cure, drinking two cups of coffee, followed by a 15-to-20-minute nap, can refresh some drivers for a short period of time.