{"id":965,"date":"2023-02-10T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=965"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:38:33","slug":"us-drug-company-says-it-can-slow-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"US Drug Company Says It Can Slow Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past few years, I\u2019ve written many posts about Alzheimer\u2019s disease. I\u2019ve shared the frightening statistics and how the disease progresses, slowly in some, faster in others. I\u2019ve also shared numerous reports of studies that show promise in finally identifying what causes Alzheimer\u2019s along with other reports that shared some of the research taking place to find a treatment and cure for the brutally fatal disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those posts offered hope, but for those currently suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s, that hope is sometime in the future, usually years away. For these Alzheimer\u2019s sufferers, that future hope seems more like an empty and hollow promise that will never help them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that emptiness may soon be filled with a real promise, as reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A US drug company says it has created the first therapy that could slow Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and it is now ready to bring it to market.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, there are no drugs that can do this \u2013 existing ones only help with symptoms.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biogen<\/em><\/strong><\/a> says it will soon seek regulatory approval in the US for the \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d drug, called aducanumab.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It plans to file the paperwork in early 2020 and has its sights on Europe too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approval processes could take a year or two. If successful, the company aims to initially offer the drug to patients previously enrolled in clinical studies of the drug.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement is somewhat surprising because the company had discontinued work on the drug in March 2019, after disappointing trial results.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the company says a new analysis of a larger dataset of the same studies shows that higher doses of aducanumab can provide a significant benefit to patients with early Alzheimer\u2019s, slowing their clinical decline so they preserve more of their memory and every day living skills \u2013 things that the disease usually robs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how does aducanumab<\/a> work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aducanumab targets a protein called amyloid that forms abnormal deposits the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s. Scientists think these plaques are toxic to brain cells and that clearing them using drugs would be a massive advance in dementia treatment, although not a cure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the millions of dollars and thousands of man hours being spent on Alzheimer\u2019s and other forms of dementia, aducanumab will be the first such drug to treat Alzheimer\u2019s in over a decade, and now, this treatment just around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michel Vounatsos<\/a>, Chief Executive at Biogen, commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are hopeful about the prospect of offering patients the first therapy to reduce the clinical decline of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alzheimer\u2019s researchers and medical professionals are excited about the upcoming approval of aducanumab and its ability to slow down the progression of the disease. Slowing the progression of the disease not only will help give sufferers more productive years, but it will give them more time to await future developments of treatments and even a cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the past few years, I\u2019ve written many posts about Alzheimer\u2019s disease. I\u2019ve shared the frightening statistics and how the disease progresses, slowly in some, faster in others. I\u2019ve also shared numerous reports of studies that show promise in finally identifying what causes Alzheimer\u2019s along with other reports that shared some of the research taking place to find a treatment and cure for the brutally fatal disease. Many of those posts offered hope, but for those currently suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}