TERRY PRATCHETT AND ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FUNDING

EDM number 1337 in 2007-08, proposed by Greg Mulholland on 03/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Charities, Diseases and Medicine.

That this House applauds Terry Pratchett, who is donating $1 million to the Alzheimer's Research Trust; notes that there are 700,000 people with dementia in the UK, a number forecast to double within a generation; notes that for every person with Alzheimer's, £11 is spent each year on UK research compared with £289 for each cancer patient; supports the work of the UK's leading scientists, who recently met at the Alzheimer's Research Trust's Network Conference in Bristol, in researching better treatments and possible cures for dementia; welcomes the campaign by Terry Pratchett and the Alzheimer's Research Trust to increase funding and promote further research into the diagnosis, treatment and a possible cure for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

This motion has been signed by a total of 120 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.