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Gov't adopts landmark strategy to fight Alzheimer's

By: Associated Press Email
Posted: Tue 4:20 AM, May 15, 2012

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will announce major steps today to fight Alzheimer's.

The Obama administration already has set a 2025 goal to find ways to effectively treat the mind-destroying disease.

Sebelius will outline to a group of researchers the work that has started. The National Institutes of Health has given the green light to some major new studies of possible therapies, including a form of insulin that's squirted into the nose.


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