{"id":9366,"date":"2013-12-11T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T00:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2015-08-23T03:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T10:50:45","slug":"britain-aiming-to-cure-dementia-says-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/britain-aiming-to-cure-dementia-says-cameron","title":{"rendered":"Britain aiming to cure dementia, says Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by RHIANNON EDWARD<\/p>\n<p><b>a TREATMENT to cure or halt dementia by 2025 is \u201cwithin our grasp\u201d, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday, as he announced a doubling in UK funding for research.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr Cameron was addressing scientists, politicians and campaigners from around the world who have gathered in London for a dementia summit called by the UK as part of its year-long chairmanship of the G8.<\/p>\n<p>With the World Health Organisation (WHO) forecasting that the number of dementia sufferers will almost double worldwide every two decades, Mr Cameron has said he wants UK government <a class=\"kLink\" id=\"KonaLink0\" style=\"text-decoration: underline !important; position: static; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/health\/britain-aiming-to-cure-dementia-says-cameron-1-3229671#\"><span style=\"color: #446688; font-family: inherit ! important; font-weight: inherit ! important; font-size: inherit ! important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"color: #446688 !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: relative;\">investment<\/span><\/span><\/a> in dementia research to rise from \u00a366 million in 2015 to \u00a3122m in 2025, with similar increases from the commercial and charitable sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/health\/britain-aiming-to-cure-dementia-says-cameron-1-3229671\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by RHIANNON EDWARD a TREATMENT to cure or halt dementia by 2025 is \u201cwithin our grasp\u201d, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday, as he announced a doubling in UK funding for research. Mr Cameron was addressing scientists, politicians and campaigners from around the world who have gathered in London for a dementia summit called by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}