Professor close to research TV presenter is involved in says participants can help themselves as well science
More people with Alzheimer’s are needed to join groundbreaking drug trials similar to the one that the TV presenter Fiona Phillips is taking part in, a professor close to the research has urged.
People with dementia who take part in clinical trials tend to have better outcomes regardless of whether the medication they are administered works, according to a professor in University College London’s dementia research centre, which is running the miridesap trial that Phillips is participating in.
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