A New Drug for Alzheimer's Disease?

Imagine going through life and then all of a sudden you start forgetting things. So you make a trip to the doctor,get a few tests run, and the next thing you know the doctor is telling you that you have Alzheimer’s.

That’s just the thing though, I can’t imagine that. I am just in college and I often think about what I will be doing upon graduation, not what is going to happen to me when I get older. The fact is though that I am only getting older day-by-day.

So my fellow Nacogdochans I am excited about a any advance in medicine that can help my grandparents, other family members, or even me one day. I don't know about you, ,but I am excited to even slow Alzheimer's disease down.

Biogen Idec. is a company that has developed a drug, aducanumab, to slow, not get rid of, the process of Alzheimer’s disease, which causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.

Overall, the dose given to patients of the small trial done ranged from small, medium, and large doses.

The group that seemed to do well, even with the side effects of the drug was the medium dose group.

According to a New York Times article,

“Alzheimer’s specialists were impressed, but they cautioned that it was difficult to read much from a small early-stage, or Phase 1, trial that was designed to look safety, not the effect on cognition. Also, other Alzheimer’s drugs that had looked promising in early studies ended up not working in larger trials.”

If the results from this small trial can be replicated in larger trials that the company Biogen will begin this year, then this drug would be in high demand.

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