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Historic Medical Breakthrough: Lecanemab, First Drug to Slow Brain Destruction in Alzheimer’s Disease, Declared a Success | Bucharest

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 10.35am

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Lecanemab, the first drug that slows the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, has been declared a historic and important success, writes the BBC.
The discovery ends decades of failure and demonstrates that a new era of drugs is possible to treat Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.
However, the drug has only a small effect and its impact on people’s daily lives is debated.
In addition, the medicine acts in the stages…read the whole news

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