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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Io Dodds

These two cancer drugs may help lower your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, study shows

Scientists have identified two cancer drugs that may also lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease as they search for some way to lower its impact on an aging population.

In a study published on Monday in the medical journal Cell, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, combed through more than 1,300 candidate drugs — from antipsychotics to antibiotics — for anything that could help alleviate the incurable condition.

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