Experts on Wednesday said they were encouraged after preliminary data for a new Alzheimer's drug showed it slowed cognitive decline, the first medicine to accomplish this goal.
by 27 percent across an 18-month period, according to early results announced by makers Biogen and Eisai.that's been shown to not only remove the build-up of a protein called amyloid in the brain, but to have a small but statistically significant impact on cognitive decline in people with early-stage disease," said Susan Kohlhaas of Alzheimer's UK.
Biogen previously brought another Alzheimer's drug to market called Aduhelm, but there was significant controversy over the evidence it worked, and its approval led to three high-level resignations in the US Food and Drug Administration. Side effects included higher rates of swelling and bleeding in the brain in the group that received the treatment compared to the group that received a placebo.
Michel Vounatsos, CEO of Biogen, said the announcement"gives patients and their families hope that lecanemab, if approved, can potentially slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease."
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