{"id":155397,"date":"2025-06-03T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155397\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:54:09","slug":"the-alzheimers-drug-pipeline-is-healthier-than-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155397\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alzheimer\u2019s drug pipeline is healthier than you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">OF ALL THE medical challenges that scientists have faced, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2024\/08\/05\/how-to-reduce-the-risk-of-developing-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dementia<\/a>, has been one of the trickiest. Between 1995 and 2021 private money spent on Alzheimer\u2019s research totalled $42.5bn, but more than 140 trials failed to deliver a single drug capable of slowing the disease. Yet the tide may be turning. There are two working drugs, offering modest benefits, on the market. A new review paper suggests more could soon follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OF ALL THE medical challenges that scientists have faced, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the most common form of dementia, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,3941,4348,229,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-science-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620718270726791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}