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Lots of 'breakthroughs', still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?

  • Written by: Yen Ying Lim, Associate Professor, Monash University
Lots of 'breakthroughs', still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?robina weermeijer/unsplash, CC BY-SA

We often hear about “dementia breakthroughs” in the news – new genes being discovered, new blood tests being developed, new drugs being tested.

However, there remains no effective or accessible cure for dementia. This is of great frustration to people living with dementia, and their carers and...

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