New Alzheimer’s Drug Approved by FDA, Promises to Slow Disease

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New Alzheimer’s Drug Approved by FDA, Promises to Slow Disease
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Breaking: A new Alzheimer's drug has been cleared for use in the U.S. Doctors say it could transform the way the disease is treated.

Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi is the first drug to show that reducing a protein linked to Alzheimer’s helped patients

The Food and Drug Administration gave conditional approval to the Alzheimer’s drug based on an early study.U.S. health regulators gave early approval to aa new class of medicines that may help slow cognitive decline caused by the disease. The Food and Drug Administration granted conditional approval to the drug, called lecanemab, based on an early study finding it reduced levels of a sticky protein called amyloid from the brains of people with early-stage Alzheimer’s. The companies will sell it under the brand name Leqembi.

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