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Valley of Forgetting review: Moving story reveals hidden human cost of drug trials
Alirio, a coffee farmer and participant in the Medellín Alzheimer’s drug trials
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Valley of Forgetting
Jennie Erin Smith (Riverhead Books)
After working in health journalism for over 10 years, I have covered countless drug trials – some runaway successes, others out-and-out failures, and everything in between. But I am ashamed to admit that I have rarely considered how these highs and lows affect the people involved.
In Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s families and the search for a cure, journalist Jennie Erin Smith puts them in the spotlight in her story of a…
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