Taiwan's national Chinese medicine research center has developed a new formula that could help treat people with Alzheimer's disease.
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00:00Doctors could soon have a new tool to fight Alzheimer's disease, as Taiwan's Chinese
00:05Medicine Research Center has found a promising treatment.
00:09The National Research Institute ran tests on mice and found that their new formula removed
00:14plaques from their brains and helped reduce brain inflammation.
00:18The animals then performed better on memory tests.
00:21The center also ran a small clinical trial that found the formula improved cognition
00:26and memory in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.
00:30The treatment needs further tests and larger-scale clinical trials before it can be approved.
00:35Alzheimer's case numbers in Taiwan are expected to rise as the country's population rapidly
00:40ages.