Australians among first to test Alzheimer's drug

By Julia Medew
Updated March 9 2013 - 1:13am, first published 12:13am

Australians will be among the first in the world to test new drugs hoped to ward off Alzheimer's disease after doctors discovered the illness takes decades to develop in people's brains before symptoms appear.

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