Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update) - podcast episode cover

Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)

Nov 25, 202233 min
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Promising drugs keep failing in trials. Allegations of fraud have cast a shadow over the field. An expert explains why Alzheimer’s treatments have been so hard to find — and why one clue may lie in the Andes Mountains.

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