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Funding Alzheimer's Research in Illinois
If Illinoisans who care for those with Alzheimer's disease, and are not paid for it, were paid, the amount would be $5 billion a year.

Erna Colborn, president and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association, Greater Illinois Chapter, says the more advances that are made, the more she realizes there is to go in conquering Alzheimer's. She says the lack of government funding of research is "criminal" and wants an Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act to direct $2 billion in federal money to research.

Recently released figures estimate the care of dementia would total the 18th largest economy in the world, or more than the revenue of Wal-Mart. A Wisconsin company, Quincy Bioscience, is promoting its research into a protein found in jellyfish as a possible ingredient for a new memory drug.

Colborn's chapter covers 68 of Illinois' 102 counties.

(Illinois Radio Network)
10 02 10 by Newsroom
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