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In a 28 March Senate subcommittee hearing that zigzagged from food allergy studies to personalized medicine and genomics to the mental health needs of returning veterans, it was Alzheimer’s disease that brought out the strong medicine. More specifically, it was the $80 million for Alzheimer’s research that US President Barack Obama included last month in this 2013 budget request, that seemed to most irk Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa  who chairs the subcommittee that oversees the National Institutes

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