A recent CNN Health article discussed the FDA’s approval of Biogen’s experimental drug for early phases of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, aducanumab, was developed to treat patients with mild cognitive impairment and slow the progression of the neurodegenerative disease, and not just the symptoms. However, an FDA advisory committee determined last year that there wasn’t enough support that the treatment is actually effective.
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