The New Offensive on Alzheimer's Disease: Stop it Before it Starts

Elie Dolgin • February 16, 2017

The key to treating Alzheimer's disease is early intervention, before symptoms are evident and brain damage is too extensive. "That's how you stop the disease," says Rudy Tanzi, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You don't wait."

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