{"id":57377,"date":"2026-06-02T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57377"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:13:00","slug":"china-steps-up-alzheimers-parkinsons-drug-push-looks-to-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57377","title":{"rendered":"China steps up Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s drug push, looks to TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/02\/56baabdb-e6a5-4d8a-80bf-822a1945c856_e925bf4f.jpg?itok=J6rZG1yY&amp;v=1780366533\" \/><br \/>To head off a public health crisis, China is stepping up efforts to find new treatments for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease. As its population ages, the country already has more cases of these neurodegenerative diseases than anywhere else in the world and their prevalence is rising faster than the global average.<br \/>\nCases of Parkinson\u2019s disease in China are forecast to rise from 3.6 million in 2024 to 10.5 million in 2050, while the number of people in China with dementia is projected&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3355620\/china-steps-alzheimers-parkinsons-drug-push-looks-tcm?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To head off a public health crisis, China is stepping up efforts to find new treatments for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease. As its population&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19898,832,9542,23960,5639,2714,7680],"class_list":["post-57377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-alzheimers","tag-china","tag-drug","tag-parkinsons","tag-push","tag-steps","tag-tcm","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}