WHO Director-General addresses G8 dementia summit

11 December 2013 -- In her opening remarks, Dr Margaret Chan welcomed the G8 summit on dementia, with its ground-breaking proposals to stimulate innovation and its strong sense of urgency to catch up with a runaway human tragedy. As she noted, the alarming trends, in numbers affected and the soaring costs, will only get worse in the absence of better tools for prevention, treatment, and care. As she noted, “We should have more faith in the power of scientific investigation.”
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