Alzheimer's disease research at Johns Hopkins.
The emergence of Alzheimer's disease from relative obscurity to front-page news is related to the increased life expectancy and increased proportion of the population over 65 years old. About 8 percent of the US elderly population suffer from the disease.
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
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