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Any Alzheimer’s drug under development has a complicated journey from formulation to clinical trials to potentially getting in the hands of patients. We spoke…
It’s no secret that Alzheimer’s drugs aren’t working in clinical trials—potential drugs to treat the disease have a 99.6 percent failure rate. But, according…