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As advanced biomedical technologies have allowed scientists to gather growing and increasingly complex datasets, even the most brilliant human minds grappling with the windfall can’t possibly keep up.
Despite growing recognition of the importance of the peripheral immune system in neurodegenerative disease, little is known about how these blood cells change in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Lecanemab has been in clinical use in the U.S. for nearly two years, and in Japan for not quite a year. How is it going? At the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference, held October 29 ...
The brain shrinkage seen on amyloid immunotherapy remains an unsolved and concerning riddle. At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 27 to August 1 in Philadelphia, Nick Fox ...
In Phase 3, HMTM failed to meet co-primary endpoints. Subgroup analysis of an open-label extension suggests benefit in people with MCI. In that subgroup, half as many people transitioned to AD. HMTM ...
A record 4,700 people from 70 countries attended the 18th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, held March 5 to 9 in Lisbon, Portugal. Those who attended this hybrid ...
Part 1 of 2. Click here for Part 2. As Alzheimer’s clinicians across the U.S. started offering a disease-modifying treatment to their patients, uptake at first was slow but is now speeding up. Six ...
Feel like your head is spinning? Like a little blood sample in a centrifuge, perhaps? No need to panic. It just means you are straining, like the rest of us, to keep up with the Alzheimer's disease ...
The latest effort to rewrite the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer’s disease has stirred more than a little controversy. While the proposed revisions have garnered praise from researchers for more ...
Current amyloid immunotherapies poorly enter the brain, with only one in a thousand antibodies getting through. For several years, researchers have been exploring alternate delivery methods that could ...
The first direct-to-consumer Alzheimer’s disease blood test has arrived. Quest Diagnostics, a worldwide diagnostic service headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey, announced on July 31 that it would ...
Tucked into the waterways of a Nordic landscape, moose roaming its woods near the Russian border, Kuopio, population 300,000, is both small and remote. Yet this Finnish city lies in the center of a ...