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The FDA has issued revised draft guidance for early treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with drugmakers told to focus on medicines that are likely to predict a clinical benefit.
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FDA issues revised drug guidelines for early Alzheimer’s disease

HQ Team March 12, 2024: The FDA has issued revised draft guidance for early treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with drugmakers told to focus.

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Scientists have discovered five known cases of possible medically acquired Alzheimer’s disease after the patients have undergone previous treatments.
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Researchers find five cases of medically-acquired Alzheimer’s in UK

HQ Team February 12, 2024: Scientists have discovered five known cases of possible medically acquired Alzheimer’s disease after the patients have undergone previous.

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Biogen, a US-based biotechnology company, will discontinue the development and commercialisation of its Alzheimer’s treatment and terminate its post-approval study as it failed to rope in a partner to cut costs of obtaining standard regulatory approval.
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Biogen abandons Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to focus on Leqembi

Biogen, a US-based biotechnology company, will discontinue the development and commercialisation of its Alzheimer’s treatment and terminate its post-approval study as it failed.

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AbbVie Inc., will buy Cerevel Therapeutics, developing drugs for neuroscience diseases, for $8.7 billion in a bid to boost the North Chicago, Illinois-based company’s presence in the psychiatric and neurological disorder segment.
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AbbVie to acquire Cerevel for $8.7b to bolster neurological treatments

HQ Team December 7, 2023: AbbVie Inc., will buy Cerevel Therapeutics, developing drugs for neuroscience diseases, for $8.7 billion in a bid to.

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Experiments conducted on young adult rats have established a link between Alzheimer’s and gut microbiota, according to a global study.
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Scientists connect gut microbiota to Alzheimer’s disease in lab experiments

HQ Team October 19, 2023: Experiments conducted on young adult rats have established a link between Alzheimer’s and gut microbiota, according to a.

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Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University have identified a new biomarker to detect Parkinson’s disease before a person develops symptoms.
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Swedish researchers identify new biomarker to detect Parkinson’s disease

HQ Team September 26, 2023: Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University have identified a new biomarker to detect Parkinson’s disease before a person develops.

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Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey, US-based clinical laboratory company, has started selling the first blood testing kits for detecting Alzheimer’s disease early.
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Quest Diagnostics unveils direct-to-customer tests for Alzheimer’s 

HQ Team August 1, 2023: Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey, US-based clinical laboratory company, has started selling the first blood testing kits for.

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Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s experimental drug, donanedab, slowed down cognitive and functional decline in people with early symptoms of the disease, according to a company statement.
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Eli Lilly: Alzheimer’s test drug slows cognitive decline in early stages

HQ Team July 18, 2023: Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s experimental drug, donanedab, slowed down cognitive and functional decline in people with early symptoms of.

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The USFDA has granted a standard approval for Eisai and Biogen's Alzheimer injection, Leqembi —the first treatment to secure the traditional approval, paving the way for wider insurance coverage of the drug.
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USFDA grants green light to Eisai, Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi

HQ Team July 7, 2023: The USFDA has granted a standard approval for Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer injection, Leqembi —the first treatment to secure the.

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A blood protein, called fibrin, which supports clotting, is responsible for switching on detrimental genes in Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, researchers say.
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Alzheimer’s develops when hero microglia turns into a villain in brain

HQ Team June 11, 2023: A blood protein, called fibrin, which supports clotting, is responsible for switching on detrimental genes in Alzheimer’s disease.

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