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The FDA hasn’t approved an Alzheimer’s drug for 15 years.
Category Archives: Drugs
FDA does not approve new Alzheimer’s drug
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Government health advisers sharply criticized a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug on Friday, concluding there wasn’t enough evidence that the experimental drug slowed the brain-destroying disease.
The panel of outside experts for the Food and Drug Administration agreed that a pivotal study in patients failed to show “strong evidence” that the drug worked. The experts warned of multiple “red flags” with the data, which did not initially show any benefit until another analysis with later results.
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Get your flu shot, avoid Alzheimer’s
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Everyone has their eyes on this year’s flu season, which is predicted to collide with the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
The CDC and other health agencies are already issuing strong recommendations to the public to get their flu shot as early as possible.
In addition to protecting against the flu, flu shots may also have an unexpected benefit: lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Ground-Breaking Alzheimer’s Study Administers First Dose
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The first infusion of an investigational drug that aims to delay or help to prevent the earliest memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease took place in September at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., researchers announced.
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Alzheimer’s drug for Autistic kids?
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An interesting development is that apparently an experimental drug, aimed to help people with Alzheimer’s, could play a role in helping children with certain types of Autims. Read the full story in our link for today.
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A better test for Alzheimer’s
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Clinical trials of Alzheimer’s medicines have failed frequently but now researchers believe that this may have been caused by the drugs given too late. So if they could just develop a test that would detect Alzheimer’s earlier, it would make the drugs that have failed for use later in the process, so much more productive.
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Getting Alzheimer’s drugs faster
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This sounds like good news. Scientists have found a way to speed up the testing of Alzheimer’s drugs.
Alzheimer’s clinical trials may take decades, but a new discovery could cut clinical trial time down to a matter of weeks.
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Asthma drug for Alzheimer’s?
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A laboratory study has found that the asthma drug salbutamol prevents the formation of tangles of fibrous protein that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The next step will be to test the drug in animal models of the disease.
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We can’t wait
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For this to hit the market: There are two drugs that have been developed by Salk Institute researchers to successfully treat Alzheimer’s in mice—and now, they have found that the very same drug compounds can also slow the aging process in the brains of healthy older mice.
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Re-evaluating a drug for Alzheimer’s
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Today we link to the article from Scientific American that tells the story about the reassessment of costs vs benefits for aducanumab.
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Hope from a new drug
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Alzheimer’s disease affects some 5 million people in the United States, and as the population ages, doctors estimate those affected will more than double by 2050.
A new drug might offer new hope, WOWT reported.
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Alzheimer surprise drug
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Despite many promising leads, more than 120 drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have failed. But Cambridge-based biotech company Biogen revived hope on Tuesday with its announcement that it would seek Food and Drug Administration approval for a drug it abandoned earlier this year.
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That new medicine for Alzheimer’s
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The biotech world went into a full-on frenzy Tuesday when drug giant Biogen dropped this whopper: The company is reviving its Alzheimer’s drug hopeful, aducanumab, after leaving it for dead all the way back in March. In fact, it’s marching forward with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) application to approve the drug for certain patients facing cognitive decline.
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China has a new Alzheimer’s drug
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- China has approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease.
- But many experts remain skeptical without more evidence and phase 3 trials are ongoing.
- The drug works to alter bacteria in the gut microbiome to affect changes in the brain.
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Hope for a new drug from Slovakia
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An Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by a privately held Slovakian biotech firm showed early signs of efficacy in a mid-stage trial, a rare step forward in the fight against the brain-wasting disease, the company said on Monday.
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Hypertension treatment may slow down Alzheimer’s progression
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Researchers have found that nilvadipine, a drug that doctors regularly use to treat hypertension, may help people with Alzheimer’s disease by increasing blood flow to the brain.
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Is the Alzheimer’s vaccine coming?
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A cure for Alzheimer’s Disease does not exist just yet, but researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are one step closer to finding one.
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Blood Pressure Med Might Help Fight Alzheimer’s
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Treatment with blood pressure medication can improve blood flow to a key brain region in people with Alzheimer’s disease, a small clinical trial has found.
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Is this why we make more progress with cancer vs Alzheimer’s
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Alzheimer’s drugs cost seven times more than cancer drugs to develop
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Status of Alzheimer’s research
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There are roughly 326 active, recruiting or enrolling by invitation clinical trials on the elusive disease, per clinicaltrial.gov. The U.S. last year dramatically stepped up funding for Alzheimer’s disease research, from $400 million a year to over $2 billion annually, although the Alzheimer’s Association says more is needed.
The biggest problem: Scientists still don’t know the cause of Alzheimer’s.
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Alzheimer’s drug passes first phase of human testing
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Here is a new drug that seemed effective for mice and now has been found safe for humans, so the next step it to test it on patients with Alzheimer’s. Exciting times
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Failed trial
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The companies developing aducanumab, Biogen and its partner Eisai, announced that they halted two late-stage trials of the experimental drug after an independent group’s analysis showed that the trials were unlikely to “meet their primary endpoint.”
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech giant joins a long list of companies in the last decade that have failed to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s.
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A project to immunize against Alzheimer’s disease
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Check out the project in the link for today. The claim is a novel process to find a way to immunize against Alzheimer’s disease. Not sure how this low budget will win from all the billions already spent by the large pharmaceutical companies but see for yourself.
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Preventing Alzheimer’s
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Yes now we are at the stage that doctors are seriously think they may have found a way to prevent Alzheimer’s to happen. In May, doctors in New York will start testing a novel gene therapy
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The end to senior moments near?
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A new drug shows promising results: Early results indicate that the drug could reverse natural, age-related cognitive decline. Researchers also believe that it might help patients whose memories are impaired because of conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Hope for a new treatment by 2025
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Despite Roche’s recent trial failure for crenezumab, the ProMIS team remain confident a disease-modifying treatment will be found in the next decade.
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Medical cannabis for Alzheimer’s
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Will we ever find a cure?
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The New York Times has a great article today, read it in our link below.
“The field is desperate, and we all want something to work,” said Dr. Reisa Sperling, director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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(our blog will be on a short break to celebrate the US Thanksgiving, back on Monday)
New UK trial for Alzheimer’s remedy
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The NIHR University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Clinical Research Facility in the UK has initiated a clinical trial, DESPIAD, to assess a new treatment called miridesap for Alzheimer’s disease.
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The new Alzheimer’s drug is coming
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Good explanation of why it is so difficult to develop an Alzheimer’s drug and which one is leading the pack.
Expect next year some results about these hopeful developments.
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