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The Economist this weekend: A special edition on Alzheimer’s disease 

April 26th 2025
The Economist this weekendThe Economist this weekendA special edition on Alzheimer’s disease 
April 26th 2025
Editor’s picks: A selection of must-read articles 

 Going viral
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease

 Keeping your marbles
How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
A healthy lifestyle can prevent or delay almost half of cases

 Brain fog
Have doctors been wrong about how to treat Alzheimer’s disease?
A new book argues that dogma and bad science led Alzheimer’s research astray

 Down’s and Alzheimer’s
Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs
Those with the syndrome have more of a protein implicated in dementia

 Treating dementia
A drug for Alzheimer’s disease that seems to work
It is not perfect. And it has side-effects. But it may be the real deal

 Medicine and dementia
Alzheimer’s disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
Childhood treatment with contaminated human growth hormone may cause the disease years later

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