The U.S. government has set a deadline of 2025 for finding an effective way to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease, an ambitious target considering there is no cure on the horizon and one that sets a firm deadline unlike previous campaigns against cancer or AIDS.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. government has set a deadline of 2025 for finding an effective way to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease, an ambitious target considering there is no cure on the horizon and one that sets a firm deadline unlike previous campaigns against cancer or AIDS. A panel ... continue reading
Alzheimer’s disease affects more Americans than breast cancer, prostate cancer and HIV/AIDS, yet research on the disease receives significantly less funding.
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Alzheimer’s Research Funding Down
Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. More Americans each year die from Alzheimer’s than breast or prostate cancer combined. And yet, in 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent more than $6 billion on cancer research, but less than $480 million on Alzheimer’s ... continue reading
Alzheimer’s kills more Americans each year than breast and prostate cancers combined. Yet the government spends far more research money on diseases like cancer and AIDS than it does on Alzheimer’s. Private funding for Alzheimer’s also lags behind.
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