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Drug on the Market

In Global Business this week Peter Day hears from Dr. Andrea Pfeifer founder of a small biotech company in Switzerland looking for an effective treatment for Alzheimers disease.

Every 72 seconds a new patient is diagnosed with Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and it鈥檚 estimated by 2050 healthcare costs will be around $1 trillion, a big worry in a world with an ageing population. In this week鈥檚 Global Business Peter Day hears from Dr. Andrea Pfeifer of the Swiss biotech company, AC Immune and hears how this small company is making encouraging strides in it鈥檚 quest for effective treatments for Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease.

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