Are we finally nearing a treatment for Alzheimer’s?
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Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Meeting in San Francisco
Alzheimer's disease, in many ways, is decades behind diseases like cancer. It's now several decades since the first symptomatic treatments for Alzheimer's were discovered and licensed. A class of therapies called monoclonal antibodies have been one of the dominant areas of clinical trials. But this meeting showed for the first time that you not only could remove amyloid and remove a lot of it, but that translated into less cognitive decline,.
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