The United States recently announced new steps for fighting Alzheimer’s disease. Last month, the government made fifty-million dollars immediately available for research on the disease. It also announced plans to increase research spending by eighty million dollars in the next fiscal year, which begins in October.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In nineteen six, a German doctor – Alois Alzheimer – described a dementia patient whose brain was examined in an autopsy. Her brain had sticky structures and nerve cells that appeared to be mixed together. Today, researchers are still working to uncover the causes of, and treatments for, this stubborn medical mystery.
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JUNE SIMMS: This SCIENCE IN THE NEWS was written by Christopher Cruise, with reporting by Carol Pearson.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith with June Simms, who was also our producer. Join us again next week for more news about science in Special English on The Voice of America.
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