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

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Early Occurrence All Timers Disease

A few thousand such individuals live within a few hundred miles of each other in the andes mountains in columbia. An extraordinary doctor named francisco lopera and his team have partnered with these families over the years to prove that their condition is due to a mutation. We met the families who had never heard of terms like placibo, controlled trials, health authority approval,. But readily understood the proposal and said, we're in.

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