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" Discworld author Terry Pratchett is handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street today (November 26th) urging the prime minister to increase funding for research into dementia. The petition states: &amp;#039;I am appalled that research into Alzheimer&amp;#039;s and related diseases, which affect 700,000 people in the UK, currently receives just three per cent of government medical research funding. &amp;#039;I strongly urge the government to increase funding for dementia research as a matter of urgency.&amp;#039; The campaign is backed by MPs, public figures, over 100 top scientists and 20,000 members of the general public. Mr Pratchett said: &amp;#039;We are facing, to use the term said to me by one of the leading researchers, a worldwide tsunami of Alzheimer&amp;#039;s and other dementia diseases.&amp;#039; The author, who suffers from a rare form of Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease and is patron of the Alzheimer&amp;#039;s Research Trust, added: &amp;#039;I intend to scream and harangue while there is time.&amp;#039; Neil Hunt, chief executive of the Alzheimer&amp;#039;s Society, said that the campaign has the charity&amp;#039;s full backing.He revealed that one million people will develop the condition in the next ten years unless action is taken and said that increased government investment is &amp;#039;absolutely essential&amp;#039; if the condition is to be defeated. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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