With new therapies that promise to slow Alzheimer’s disease ... - CNN
Jul 16, 2023 · Under new draft guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, unveiled on Sunday at a large international gathering of physicians and researchers, these memory tests would take a...
Researchers have found a protein that seems to protect brain cells …
Jul 24, 2024 · A study of 48 post-mortem brains found a protein that appears to protect brain cells from Alzheimer's — even in people who had significant amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains.
New Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease Signs
Dec 20, 2023 · PHILADELPHIA – A “chaperone” molecule that slows the formation of certain proteins reversed disease signs, including memory impairment, in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alzheimer's scientists say brain stimulating device could ... - NBC News
Nov 1, 2024 · The new study, a phase 2 clinical trial, included 32 volunteers with Alzheimer’s disease, aged 56 to 88 at the start of the study, who were followed for 52 weeks. Sixteen of the participants who ...
Alzheimer’s disease may damage the brain in two phases
Oct 15, 2024 · Scientists analyzed the brains of 84 people, and the results, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that damage to one type of cell, called an inhibitory neuron, during the early phase may trigger the neural circuit problems that underlie the disease.
First Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease progression gets full FDA ...
Jul 7, 2023 · CNN — The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted traditional full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the memory-robbing...
FDA approves a second Alzheimer's drug, Eli Lilly's Kisunla - AP News
Jul 2, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
Second Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease’s progression may be ... - CNN
Jul 17, 2023 · The full approval this month of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi marked a historic shift in the treatment of the disease: For the first time, doctors have a medicine to prescribe that has been...
FDA fully approves Leqembi, first drug shown to slow Alzheimer's ...
Jul 6, 2023 · The Food and Drug Administration has fully approved the first drug shown to slow down Alzheimer's disease. The action means that Leqembi, whose generic name is lecanemab, should be widely...
Lilly's Alzheimer’s drug that can slow disease gets ... - NBC News
Jun 10, 2024 · A closely watched Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly won the backing of federal health advisers on Monday, setting the stage for the treatment’s expected approval for people with mild dementia ...