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Advancements in Alzheimer’s disease

How Your Brain’s Nightly Cleanse Keeps It Healthy (Links to an external site)

Scientific American August 22, 2025
How Your Brain’s Nightly Cleanse Keeps It Healthy
Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help ward off dementia

Drug to slow Alzheimer’s well tolerated outside of clinical trial setting (Links to an external site)

The Source May 12, 2025
Drug to slow Alzheimer’s well tolerated outside of clinical trial setting
Side effects of lecanemab are manageable, study finds

New blood test diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease and measures how far it’s progressed (Links to an external site)

Fox News April 1, 2025
New blood test diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease and measures how far it’s progressed
The new test could also help confirm whether Alzheimer’s or another condition is causing a person’s symptoms.

Predicting cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)

NPR March 31, 2025
Predicting cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s
New tests of blood and spinal fluid can show how far Alzheimer’s has progressed and how fast a patient’s memory will decline.

Can a Drug Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease Decades Before It Happens? (Links to an external site)

Gizmodo February 6, 2025
Can a Drug Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease Decades Before It Happens?
Scientists are testing an experimental anti-amyloid antibody in people expected to develop early-onset Alzheimer’s.

New drug targets for Alzheimer’s identified from cerebrospinal fluid (Links to an external site)

The Source November 14, 2024
New drug targets for Alzheimer’s identified from cerebrospinal fluid
Study pegs certain cellular activities to driving Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked disease-related proteins and genes to identify specific cellular pathways responsible for Alzheimer’s genesis and progression.

The New Age of Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)

Scientific American April 18, 2024
The New Age of Alzheimer’s
The soaring burden of dementia threatens global health. Science is paving new paths to solutions.

Podcast: Newly approved drug may slow progression of Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)

WashU School of Medicine news release August 4, 2023
Podcast: Newly approved drug may slow progression of Alzheimer’s

Lilly drug slows Alzheimer’s by 35%, bolstering treatment approach (Links to an external site)

Reuters – May 8, 2023 May 8, 2023

Conquering Alzheimer’s: a look at the therapies of the future (Links to an external site)

Nature – Apr 4, 2023 April 7, 2023
Conquering Alzheimer’s: a look at the therapies of the future

Focused ultrasound technique leads to release of neurodegenerative disorders biomarkers (Links to an external site)

The Source, Washington University in St. Louis – Feb 3, 2023 February 3, 2023
Focused ultrasound technique leads to release of neurodegenerative disorders biomarkers

FDA APPROVES LEQEMBI™ (LECANEMAB-IRMB) UNDER THE ACCELERATED APPROVAL PATHWAY FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (Links to an external site)

Eisai Co., Ltd. – Jan 06 2023 January 7, 2023

WashU, Eisai form drug discovery collaboration (Links to an external site)

The Source, Washington University in St. Louis – Dec 14, 2022 December 16, 2022
WashU, Eisai form drug discovery collaboration

[Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR] Roche provides update on Phase III GRADUATE programme evaluating gantenerumab in early Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)

Roche – Nov 14, 2022 November 15, 2022

LECANEMAB CONFIRMATORY PHASE 3 CLARITY AD STUDY MET PRIMARY ENDPOINT, SHOWING HIGHLY STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF CLINICAL DECLINE IN LARGE GLOBAL CLINICAL STUDY OF 1,795 PARTICIPANTS WITH EARLY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (Links to an external site)

Eisai Co., Ltd. – Sept 27 2022 September 28, 2022

Roche provides update on Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative study evaluating crenezumab in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd – June 16, 2022 June 16, 2022

Blood test for Alzheimer’s highly accurate in large, international study (Links to an external site)

The Source, Washington University in St. Louis – Feb 22, 2022 February 23, 2022
Blood test for Alzheimer’s highly accurate in large, international study

Dementia First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s goes on sale (Links to an external site)

AP News – November 30, 2020 December 7, 2020
Dementia First blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s goes on sale

Why Didn’t She Get Alzheimer’s? The Answer Could Hold a Key to Fighting the Disease (Links to an external site)

New York Times – Nov 4 2019 November 4, 2019
Why Didn’t She Get Alzheimer’s? The Answer Could Hold a Key to Fighting the Disease

‘Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated.’ Signed, Aducanumab (Links to an external site)

Alzforum – Oct 24 2019 October 24, 2019

The importance of prevention trials in Alzheimer’s disease with Randall Bateman (Links to an external site)

Neuro Central, September 23, 2019 September 25, 2019
The importance of prevention trials in Alzheimer’s disease with Randall Bateman

Blood test is highly accurate at identifying Alzheimer’s before symptoms arise (Links to an external site)

Washington University School of Medicine, August 2, 2019 August 9, 2019
Blood test is highly accurate at identifying Alzheimer’s before symptoms arise
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