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No cure for Alzheimer's disease in my lifetime

  • Written by Norman A. Paradis, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
In most cases, scientists are still unsure of what causes Alzheimer's disease.FGC / Shutterstock.com

Biogen recently announced that it was abandoning its late stage drug for Alzheimer’s, aducanumab, causing investors to lose billions of dollars.

They should not have been surprised.

Not only have there been more than 200 failed trials for...

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