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The Alzheimer's casino

The Alzheimer's casino

The Slow Newscast • S1, Episode 175

The Alzheimer's casino

There is an unsavoury tension between pharmaceutical research and Wall Street, between science, money, and hope. It costs hundreds of millions – often billions – of dollars to develop a new drug. But, for the firms who do, the payout is vast.

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