Showing posts with label gantenerumab. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

New Alzheimer's Drug Shows Early Promise

An experimental Alzheimer's disease drug, gantenerumab, may help lower levels of amyloid plaque in the brains of people with the disease, an early clinical trial indicates. Researchers claims that, of 16 people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease, those who received two to seven infusions of the experimental drug every four weeks showed marked reductions in the amount of plaque in their brains via imaging tests that were conducted several months after their treatments.....

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