{"id":77050,"date":"2018-03-21T03:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-drug-to-slow-spread-of-dementia-could-be-available-in-three-years"},"modified":"2018-03-21T03:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T10:02:52","slug":"a-drug-to-slow-spread-of-dementia-could-be-available-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-drug-to-slow-spread-of-dementia-could-be-available-in-three-years","title":{"rendered":"A drug to slow spread of dementia could be available in three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/02\/21\/1166660507204172441\/1024x576_MP4_1166660507204172441.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A drug to slow the spread of dementia could be available in three years and a \u2018vaccine\u2019 that prevents the disease within a decade, experts say.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">It is now a matter of \u2018when not if\u2019 a cure will be found for Alzheimer\u2019s <\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Last year dementia became Great Britain\u2019s number one cause of death<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Existing drugs for Alzheimer\u2019s only treat the symptoms, not causes <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&authornamef=Colin+Fernandez+for+the+Daily+Mail\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colin Fernandez for the Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5525173\/A-drug-slow-spread-dementia-available-three-years.html?ito=social-facebook\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-5525173\/A-drug-slo...l-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug to slow the spread of dementia could be available in three years and a \u2018vaccine\u2019 that prevents the disease within a decade, experts say. It is now a matter of \u2018when not if\u2019 a cure will be found for Alzheimer\u2019s Last year dementia became Great Britain\u2019s number one cause of death Existing drugs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}