David Cameron on the Alzheimer's Breakthrough

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The former prime minister says it’s his “happiest day” as president of Alzheimer’s Research UK, after the discovery of the first drug to slow the disease. He also speaks about whether he did enough during his premiership to support those who needed dementia care. And, the BBC’s health and science correspondent, James Gallagher, explains how the medication works. This episode of Newscast was presented by James Cook and made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Madeleine Drury, Chris Flynn and Emma Jacobs. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:29.4	newscast chair for one more day,
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0:35.3	Today, though, right now, we're going to devote
0:38.0	this entire podcast to the news about this new drug,
0:41.4	which has been found, which slows the destruction of the brain
0:45.1	and Alzheimer's.
0:46.2	Health experts are calling it a momentous break
0:49.0	through a real moment of hope.
0:50.7	So we're going to explore what this drug is,
0:53.4	what's it all about, how does it work?
0:55.2	And we'll also get reaction from the former Prime Minister,
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