Bill Gates Determined to Wipe Out Alzheimer's

Today's blog features the major headline regarding Bill Gates' recent announcement that the mogul is investing $50 million dollars of his own money to go towards the Dementia Discovery Fund, a two-year-old private venture fund focused on drug discovery in Alzheimer’s and other age-related brain disorders. 

Gates proclaims, "I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity, and there is nothing you can do about it,” Gates wrote. “It feels a lot like you’re experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew."

We love seeing stories like this in healthcare news. To read the full Forbes article, please click HERE! 

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