{"id":4664,"date":"2025-06-17T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/bill-gates-alzheimers-biomarkers-blood-based-diagnostic-tests-medication\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:02:25","slug":"bill-gates-alzheimers-biomarkers-blood-based-diagnostic-tests-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/bill-gates-alzheimers-biomarkers-blood-based-diagnostic-tests-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Bill Gates: I lost my father to Alzheimer\u2019s. But I\u2019m more optimistic than ever about fighting the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Bill Gates: I lost my father to Alzheimer\u2019s. But I\u2019m more optimistic than ever about fighting the disease<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Father\u2019s Day without my dad never gets easier. Although he is on my mind every day, I always find myself thinking about him even more often this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>My dad was a giant in every sense of the word. More than anyone else, he shaped the values of the Gates Foundation, and everything we have accomplished is a testament to his vision of a better world. Sadly, we lost my dad in 2020 to Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Watching my brilliant, loving father go downhill and disappear was a brutal experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/17\/bill-gates-alzheimers-biomarkers-blood-based-diagnostic-tests-medication\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Gates<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/17\/bill-gates-alzheimers-biomarkers-blood-based-diagnostic-tests-medication\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Bill Gates: I lost my father to Alzheimer\u2019s. But I\u2019m more optimistic than ever about fighting the disease Father\u2019s Day without my dad never gets easier. Although he is on my mind every day, I always find myself thinking about him even more often this time of year. My dad was a giant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2705,2154,2706,2208,2143,1428,2155,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","category-biotechnology","category-dementia","category-drug-development","category-first-opinion","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}