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Washington. The National Institutes of Health will accelerate Alzheimer's research by spending $50 million over the next five years to develop a vaccine to combat the degenerative brain disease that afflicts more than four million Americans, President Clinton said yesterday. The Alzheimer's Association applauded NIH's commitment, but called on Congress to boost appropriations by $100 million for fiscal year 2001. Millions of the baby boomer generation will be struck with Alzheimer's unless new ways to prevent the illness are discovered in the next five years, according to the Alzheimer's Association. Currently, one in 10 people over the age of 65 and as many as 50 percent of those over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, said Clinton. |
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