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Michelle Trudeau Reports That A New Memory-Enhancing Drug

NPR
Published November 17, 1996 at 10:00 PM MST

could soon be used to help Alzheimer's patients...a disease that causes irreversible memory loss in about five million people. The new drug was designed in a laboratory, and it's been shown to improve memory in rats and now in humans.

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