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The Reason There’s Been No Cure for Alzheimer’s
The Reason There’s Been No Cure for Alzheimer’s
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Medicine had nothing to offer my father and millions of other Americans. I set out to find out why.
By Joanne Silberner
01.04.23 — U.S. Politics
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The Reason There’s Been No Cure for Alzheimer’s

In the mid-1990s, my father, a gentle and kind man who loved being around people, began avoiding social contact, embarrassed by his inability to remember words and faces. He had been a brilliant physician until Alzheimer’s disease started eroding his brain. By the time my sister, mother, and I convinced him to get checked out, he couldn’t draw a clock w…

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Joanne Silberner

Joanne Silberner is an independent journalist who has covered health and medicine for decades for NPR and other outlets. She taught journalism at the University of Washington, and lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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