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Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that involves a gradual and irreversible decline in memory, thinking, and, eventually, the ability to perform daily activities.
Lecanemab (a.k.a. leqembi) has received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This is the first FDA-approved treatment to help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
And 1 in 3 adults ages 65 and older dies with it or another form of dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Leqembi has been shown to successfully reduce amyloid plaques in the brain.
Donanemab is a targeted antibody drug which slows down the early stages of Alzheimer’s. The drug, and another new drug for Alzheimer’s called lecanemab, have been billed as a huge step forward ...
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly that has been shown in clinical trials to modestly slow a decline in memory and thinking abilities in people with ...
This trial proves that Alzheimer’s disease can be treated.” NEW DATA: Topline data from the confirmatory Phase 3 CLARITY AD trial is now available for our investigational anti-amyloid-beta ...
For each category, patients were rated on a 5-point scale: 0 is normal, 0.5 is questionable dementia and 1, 2 and 3 are mild, moderate and severe stages of dementia, respectively.
Drugs like donanemab, which slow disease progression in early-stage patients, represent a new era in the treatment of Alzheimer's, after three decades of failed attempts to fight the fatal disease ...