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#Cure for Alzheimer
The Alzheimer's medication donanemab highly effective at early stages
Posted on 19 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:
Donanemab is an investigational Alzheimer's drug that showed promise in a new clinical trial. It decreased disease progression in patients with early stage Alzheimer's compared to a placebo. However, it was less effective in those with more advanced disease or a genetic risk factor.
Donanemab targets amyloid plaques in the brain, which are thought to cause damage in Alzheimer's. It cleared about 90% of amyloid in the trial.
The drug can cause a side effect called ARIA,...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 15 November.
- Johannes Kepler dies
- Continental Congress approves Articles of Conf
- Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
- Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated
- American Federation of Labor founded in Pitts (AFL)
- Dom Pedro II Emperor of Brazil deposed; republic proclaimed
- League of Nations holds 1st meeting in Geneva
- NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
- Walt Disney Art School created
- 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
- Social Security Adm approves 1st unemployment check
- 1st 75 000 men were called to armed forces duty during peacetime
- Cow Palace opens in SF
- William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada
- KRON (Channel 4 SF) signs on from 7 to 10 PM
- 1st Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
- Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
- Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
- Mickey Wright shoots a 62 lowest golf score for a woman pro
- Gemini XII returns to Earth
- Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
- 250 000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War
- Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
- Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
- Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
- 75th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
- Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart dies at Calif medical center