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49. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is There a Drug to Treat All Timers Disease?

When you do a trial and you find conicot no effect, it doesn't mean that there's not an effect in particular sub groups of people. There are lots of other shots on goal for the treatment or prevention of al emers disease. One bucket would be, can we attack the underlying path o biology? Oamaloid is a target. Are targets, oxidatof stress, blood vessel functioning, membrane functioning, nero inflammation. Can we sharpen somebody's thinking ability, even if it's only for a matter of months or a year or two? That would be a therapeutic victory.

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