Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 30 November 2022

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1. Hopes of dementia cure

A cure for Alzheimer’s could be close after a drug was proven to slow the disease for the first time. A trial found that lecanemab slowed memory decline by 27% over 18 months. The research breakthrough “ends decades of failure”, said the BBC, and has been hailed as “momentous and historic”. Experts said that it was the most significant breakthrough in a generation, marking the “beginning of the end” of Alzheimer’s and offered “real optimism that dementia can be beaten and one day even cured”.

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