New Alzheimer's drug: How much of a breakthrough is it?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson speaks to Scott Mitchell, the widower of the late Dame Barbara Windsor, who died with the disease, about what the breakthrough means to his campaign to raise awareness.
Plus Tom Clarke, Sky’s science and technology editor, explores how much of a difference the drug could make and what happens next.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Interviews producer: Alys Bowen
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Archiver researcher: Nelly Stefanova
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:56.7 | legacy to find out how. Mike Rampa was a big man in every sense of that phrase. Physically, he was |
| 1:08.5 | barrel-chested. He used to scare and amuse me and my little brother in equal measure, |
| 1:13.1 | chasing us around his house, pretending to be a silverback gorilla. His personality and his intelligence |
| 1:18.7 | were the size of his stature. But by the end, Alzheimer's had robbed him of all of that. And |
| 1:26.5 | I'm quite bitter, as you might be able to tell. |
| 1:30.0 | We first noticed a problem when both my brother and I were very, very young indeed. |
| 1:34.9 | Grandpa came into the room and shouted at my little brother for not returning one of his |
| 1:41.8 | tools. The only tools we were playing with at the time were, of course, made of plastic. |
| 1:46.3 | From then on, we were of an age that my parents chose to keep most of his decline from us. |
| 1:52.0 | But I do remember, close to the end, us going for an ice cream, sitting in the car. |
| 1:59.9 | He was basically skin over a skeleton, and the glint that was in his eye. |
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| 2:08.6 | First, that I enjoy remembering the man. |
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