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The drug works by reducing amyloid plaques that form in the brain, which is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. With this, it helps slow the progression of the disease. Lecanemab is given to ...
How a new FDA-approved drug can — and can’t — help people with Alzheimer’s November 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, you may have read about a newly ...
BLAZE was a phase II study that also concluded in 2014 and evaluated the effects of crenezumab in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's Disease, however its primary endpoint was changes in brain amyloid load, with secondary endpoints of changes in other biomarkers, cognition, global function, and activities of daily living. The resultant ...
This Dec. 21, 2022 image provided by Eisai in January 2023, shows vials and packaging for their medication Leqembi. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, U.S. health officials approved Leqembi, a new Alzheimer ...
An Alzheimer’s disease drug may soon have a new dosing schedule. The medication, Leqembi, is currently administered via an infusion every two weeks. Under the proposed changes, the medication ...
A key difference in trial design for the two treatments is that Lilly measured levels of a second Alzheimer's-related protein called tau associated with brain cell death to select patients most ...
The Alzheimer's drug Leqembi. (Eisai/Handout via Reuters) (Handout . / reuters) Around 25% of the population has one copy of the APOE4 gene, while up to 3% have two copies of the gene, according ...
U.S. officials have approved another Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease, providing a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment.