夏说英语新闻晨读 第186期:阿兹海默症药物试制失败

 本期内容：

Eli Lilly said that a clinical trial for a new drug to slow the onset¹ of Alzheimer’s had failed. The drug, solanezumab, was tested on patients with mild cases of Alzheimer’s, who showed only a slight improvement after 18 months of treatment. The experiment had been closely watched by medical researchers and hopes were high that solanezumab would be the first drug approved to treat the disease.

Clinical trial: 临床试验
Onset：开始
Alzheimer‘s： 老年痴呆症

1 onset   

n.进攻，袭击，开始，突然开始

参考例句：

• The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
• Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。