All posts tagged 'Alzheimer’s drugs'

FDA Plans To Ease Approval Process For Alzheimer’s Drugs

Posted on March 14th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s a breakthrough, though not in the lab, that could tremendously boost research on Alzheimer’s drugs: The Food and Drug Administration plans to ease up its requirements to approve such medications. It was actually more than a month ago, in early February, that the FDA announced its new draft guidance..
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Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Flunks One Test, Shows Results In Other

Posted on August 26th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The results are out on the two late-stage clinical trials that Eli Lilly was running on a potential Alzheimer’s drug, and what you think about them depends on whether you tend to see the glass half empty or half full. Lily’s tests on the drug solanezumab didn’t attain their goal,..
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Results Of Late-Stage Trials Of Key Alzheimer’s Drugs Due Soon

Posted on July 11th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The Associated Press Wednesday did a rather dire story on almost-complete studies on three potential drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. The gist of the article is quite simple: If these drugs don’t do well in their late-stage trials, several pharmaceutical companies may give up on finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. AP..
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FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Test To Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on April 11th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

In what could be a big breakthrough, Eli Lilly & Co. has won approval from federal regulators for an imaging test that detects the brain plaque that’s a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug maker received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last Friday, and..
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MIT Researchers Find That Gene May Help Slow Down Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on July 25th, 2010 · Posted in Brain Injury

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the cruelest maladies that can be inflicted on a person and their family. It can rob someone of not only their memories, but their dignity. And loved ones are tormented as the man or woman they spent their life with doesn’t even know who they are. So..
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When Alzheimer’s hits at 40

Posted on November 14th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 11/14/2008 By SHIRLEY S. WANGThe Wall Street Journal Brian Kammerer, the 45-year-old chief financial officer of a small hedge fund, called his wife one day from a cellphone in the men’s room of his Manhattan office building. A colleague had just asked him for something, he whispered, but he..
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