New Alzheimer’s medicine is still a sop but gives hope

A new drug against Alzheimer’s was approved in the US in January. The news was received with cheers there, because there are no good medicines against it. But this remedy hardly works either. Yet this futile medicine also offers hope: it gives a better insight into where future drugs can intervene.

Presentation: Laura Wismans

Guests: Niki Korteweg & Sander Voormolen

Editing and editing: Elze van Driel

Photo Cavallini James / BSIP

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