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Alzheimer's Disease

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DID YOU KNOW?

Alzheimer Disease affects 4,000,000 Americans. If we do not find a cure for this condition, in the year 2050 14 million Americans could have this disease.
 
FACTOID

Alzheimer Disease is named after Dr. Alosis Alzheimer. In 1907, he published a paper which described the case of a 52 year old woman who developed memory loss and other features of dementia.
   
   

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