An Alzheimer’s drug significantly slowed Alzheimer’s disease in a new study, bolstering the drug’s prospects ahead of an FDA approval decision next year
their experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug
significantly slowed progression of the memory-robbing disease in a large study, bolstering the drug’s prospects for approval. The pharmaceutical companies said their drug lecanemab reduced cognitive and functional decline by 27%, compared with a placebo, over 18 months in a Phase 3 study of 1,800 patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s. The drug was also linked to higher rates of brain swelling and small bleeds, though the company said they were rarely symptomatic.
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