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Lecanemab: Why This Could Be The Beginning Of The End Of Alzheimer’s
The first drug targeting the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease has been approved by the European Medicines Agency. Despite ...
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Leqembi Okayed for Subset of Early Alzheimer’s Patients
The European Medicines Agency re-examined clinical data of a subset of patients with one or no copies of the APOE4 gene ...
Ticker: Biogen Alzheimer’s drug gets second look in EU; Ford takes $165M hit on slow recall
A European regulatory committee now recommends approval of the Alzheimer’s treatment lecanemab a few months after rejecting ...
Eisai Gets Positive Opinion From CHMP In European Union For Lecanemab In Early Alzheimer's Disease
Eisai Co., Ltd. (ESALF.PK) and Biogen Inc. (BIIB) announced a positive opinion has been received from the Committee for Medicinal ...
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Japan approves 2nd protein-targeting drug for Alzheimer's sufferers
A single course of newly approved Alzheimer's drug donanemab-azbt, the second medicine available in Japan targeting proteins in the brains of sufferers of the debilitating disease, will cost 3.08 ...
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Alzheimer's Data Withdrawn
A preprint research letter linking the Alzheimer's drug lecanemab (Leqembi) with excess deaths was withdrawn last week. The ...
Eisai Receives Positive Opinion from the CHMP in the European Union for Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
1. About lecanemab (generic name, brand name: Leqembi®) Lecanemab is the result of a strategic research alliance between Eisai and BioArctic. It is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal ...