A long shot
Jul 11, 2021
3 minutes
by Nicky Pellegrino
drug to cure Alzheimer’s disease is one of the holy grails of medical research. There hasn’t been a new treatment approved for almost 20 years, and those we do have only slow down symptoms for a time. There is nothing that tackles the underlying cause of a condition that can rob us of our brain power in later life. So, there was a lot of excitement around the development of aducanumab and it was fast-tracked through the research process.
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