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Groundbreaking $100M study aims to stop Alzheimer's before it starts
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012
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(CBS News) Alzheimer's disease cannot be cured but it can be prevented. The government announced Tuesday a $100 million study to test an Alzheimer's prevention drug in just one family. It's potentially a breakthrough because it's hard to test Alzheimer's prevention.
Scientists can never know which healthy people will develop the disease, but now they've found one family in which nearly everyone develops Alzheimer's.
An Alzheimer's disease sufferer in Colombia
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CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's or another forms of dementia. That's expected to triple over the next 40 years
Scientists can never know which healthy people will develop the disease, but now they've found one family in which nearly everyone develops Alzheimer's.
An Alzheimer's disease sufferer in Colombia
/ CBS News
CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's or another forms of dementia. That's expected to triple over the next 40 years
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