Dr Luke O'Neill

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561 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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The Pat Kenny Show · Luke O’Neill on Alzheimer’s · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

it was the first thing ever that could slow down the disease progression.

And there's three of them now actually available.

A third one was announced this week as well, by the way.

I think it's tau.

It was another noxious protein.

So there's a tiny bit of progress with therapy.

But the European Medicines Agency haven't approved it because it's too expensive and the effects are too small at the moment.

But still there's a bit of progress.

Now, they have been talking about the shingles shot.

Now, this is the big one.

And I'm going to plead to the Irish government to make the shingles vaccine for free to the over-60s yet again.

Now, I paid for mine.

But it's not cheap.

I think it was €400 or €500 for me.

Yeah, it's two shots and it's...

The UK made it free, Pat, and tripled uptakes.

You make it free, more people are going to get it.

In Northern Ireland, it's free.

Yeah, exactly.

Now, this week, Pat, get this, a 51% decreased risk of Alzheimer's if you take the shingles vaccine.

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