New Alzheimer’s drug is huge leap forward for sufferers

The first powerful treatment for Alzheimer’s is on the horizon after a new drug was found to combat the changes to the brain that cause the disease.

Scientists hailed the breakthrough as the best news in dementia research for a quarter of a century and others said that it could be a “game changer”.

British people in the early stages of the condition are being signed up for a large-scale clinical trial of the monthly injection, which appears to break up the poisonous lumps that form in the brains of sufferers.