Clinton’s plan to cure Alzheimer’s by 2025

Gingrich, who was former President Bill Clinton’s chief antagonist while in office, came out in favor of Hillary Clinton’s push to find a cure for Alzheimer’s by 2025. He said that Clinton’s proposal “makes this a national conversation”.

According to her campaign, Clinton has worked with leading researchers, including the research advisory council to the congressionally-authorized National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, to set the $20 billion goal over ten years.

Create a “reliable stream” of funding between now and 2025 Ensuring that $2 billion a year will go toward Alzheimer’s research will allow scientists to purse the “the big, creative bets – including cross-collaboration with researchers in related fields – that can result in dramatic pay-offs not only for Alzheimer’s but for other neurodegenerative illnesses as well”, the brief says.

There are more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

The former secretary of state was expected to talk about the plan during a campaign stop Tuesday in Fairfield, Iowa.

The Democratic presidential front-runner vows to spend $2 billion per year “to prevent, effectively treat and make a cure possible by 2025”.

Clinton holds a significant lead in Iowa over her nearest Democratic opponent, Vermont Sen.

Alzheimer’s pioneer Rudolph Tanzi, said, “Alzheimer’s is the red-haired stepchild among the top diseases threatening the aging and our health care system”.

The Clinton campaign notes that some two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women, and that prevalence in elderly African-Americans is twice as high as in elderly whites. “This (additional funding) would make a lot of difference in the programs we could develop”, Jeffrey Cummings, director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, said. Without advances, Medicare costs will more than quadruple in 2050, accounting for one in three Medicare dollars. Clinton held a conference call with researchers on Monday, where she emphasized the necessity of raising the profile of the disease.

“Hillary Clinton’s plan to double down on funding for medical research and support my HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act is the one-two punch needed to help individuals and families coping with Alzheimer’s”, said Sen.

Clinton called for a decade-long investment of $2 billion per year for research, which her campaign called a fourfold increase over last year’s $586 million.

Clinton has often spoken on the campaign trail about meeting supporters who are struggling to care for family members with Alzheimer’s.

Tanzi, named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, has been on the front lines of fighting the disease. The other, which he gives more credence, is that women are more susceptible to brain inflammation than men, which is also probably why women suffer more from other brain diseases like multiple sclerosis, he said.