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A January 5, 2015 Independent article (UK) reported on growing momentum in the battle against Alzheimer’s heading into the new year. According to the article, “Yet just when the future seemed irredeemably dark, pinpoints of light have appeared. In the months since the report was published, there has been a flurry of positive new announcements on both the research and the policy fronts, causing the share prices of some drug-makers to soar. In March, the first global ministerial summit on dementia was held in Geneva, hosted by the World Health Organisation. In October, the Dementia Discovery Fund was launched with $100m (£65m) investment from the UK Government, Alzheimer's Research UK and global pharmaceutical companies to speed up the discovery of new treatments. In November, David Cameron announced the first national Dementia Research Institute, to be led by the Medical Research Council, which is set to receive up to £150m by 2020.”

A January 5, 2016 UCLA Newsroom article profiled Ron Brookmeyer, a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, and his efforts to call “attention to the looming Alzheimer’s epidemic.” 

A January 5, 2015 STAT News article reported that “the developer of the wildly popular Lumosity “brain training” games has agreed to pay $2 million in refunds to settle federal charges that it deceived customers about the cognitive and health benefits of its apps and online products.”

A January 5, 2015 The Forecaster article (ME) reported that Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) reiterated her support for Alzheimer’s research and care support during an event in Falmouth. According to the article, “Collins, who chairs the Senate Aging Committee and co-chairs the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, during her remarks spoke about the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act, which was passed by the Senate last month. The act, which Collins introduced with Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, calls for development of a national strategy to recognize and support more than 40 million family caregivers across the country. Collins said the next step will be working hard to get RAISE through the House of Representatives, in order to create that national strategy.”

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