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MAKING REAL GAINS IN WAR ON ALZHEIMER'S

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New technologies like AI are helping scientists find new ways to understand and possibly help treat Alzheimer's disease. Scientists are now looking at the possible role of lithium deficiency as a cause in the onset and progression of the disease. The cost for care of patients with the disease is estimated to increase to $1.5 trillion per year by 2050. If scientists are unable to change the course of the disease, then the only real treatment will be physical and palliative care.