Cure for Alzheimer's disease! Clinton appealed to invest $ 2 billion

On Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary • Clinton announced a program to promote Alzheimer's treatment plan, and seek to completely cure the disease by 2025, including specific measures to increase the disease and its related disorders research grants and so on.

According to Reuters, Clinton called for the establishment of a $ 2 billion per year and ten-year study of long-term investment plan, she said in a statement, said the government should help those afflicted by the disease of millions of families, increased investment in research to effective prevention and treatment of this disease, and to seek to achieve by 2025 a long-term goal of a complete cure of the disease.

Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease, is the most common type of dementia, accounting for 60-80% of all dementia cases. Alzheimer's disease will continue to be the most important public health challenges facing the United States, an estimated 5 million Americans over age 65 suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which is the US National Institute of Aging (National Institute on Aging) the sixth leading cause of death mentioned.

In the United States each year with Alzheimer's disease is directly related expenditures reached $ 203 billion, if the impact of the disease progression, delay disability-related aspects of dementia do not make a difference, by 2050, this figure is expected to increase to 10,000 One hundred million U.S. dollars. Hillary Clinton's campaign team noted that aggressive treatment of this disease is an effective way to help the government reduce the health insurance plans and health insurance burden.