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Four trials go to human phase!
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Ionis and Biogen are bringing to bear the Ionis drug technology called antisense, which targets diseases processes at the genetic level. It blocks or modifies production of proteins involved in disease.
The Phase 1/2a study of the Alzheimer’s drug, IONIS-MAPTRx, seeks evidence of safety and signs of activity. It’s to be given in 44 patients with mild Alzheimer’s over three months.The drug targets microtubule-associated tau protein, also called MATP, or tau, an abnormal protein associated with Alzheimer’s.
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Alzheimer’s is a young or middle-aged person’s disease
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“Alzheimer’s disease starts in the brain more than twenty years before the first symptom,” said Richard Isaacson, director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at New York-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center. “Alzheimer’s disease is not an older person’s disease. It’s a disease of younger and middle-aged people. And that’s how we have to shift the paradigm.”
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A new Honorary Ambassador
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The President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, has become an Honorary Ambassador of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). The Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Ms. Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría, recieved the award on behalf of the President, at a special meeting with Paola Barbarino, CEO of ADI and Juan Parra, Executive Director of
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Now the meno pause may raise Alzheimer’s risk
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Menopause triggers numerous changes in a woman’s body — and, apparently, metabolic changes in the brain as well that puts middle-age women at greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a study reports.
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Not knowing you are loosing memory, predicts Alzheimer’s
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While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, its presence doesn’t mean a person will develop dementia. A new study has found a clinically useful way to predict who won’t develop Alzheimer’s disease, based on patients’ awareness of their memory problems.
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