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This Week in Freakonomics Radio (Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2026)

Apr 13Apr 19, 20261 episode1h 1m of content

This week, Freakonomics Radio examined why one of medicine's most pressing challenges has proven so resistant to progress: Alzheimer's disease. The episode explores the structural and scientific obstacles that have stalled decades of research and drug development, asking whether the problem lies in how we've been approaching the disease or in deeper constraints we've yet to overcome.

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