Tag Archives: Alzheimers

# 3 Cause of Death, mutation spread

Here are the stories of coronavirus that Medscape editors around the world think you need to know today. # 3 Cause of Death More than 170,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University data, making it the third leading …

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FDA will quickly decide on experimental drugs for Alzheimer’s

Biogen’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Photo: Dominick Reuter (Getty Images) On Friday, the pharmaceutical company Biogen announced the Food and Drug Administration accepted its request to conduct a priority review of its experimental Alzheimer’s drug for approval. The faster-than-normal process sets the stage for treatment, called aducanumab, to be the first …

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