{"id":218353,"date":"2022-12-14T19:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218353"},"modified":"2022-12-14T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:50:46","slug":"explained-will-new-drug-slow-the-progress-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-will-new-drug-slow-the-progress-of-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | Will new drug slow the progress of Alzheimer\u2019s?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cExplained | Will new drug slow the progress of Alzheimer\u2019s?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 12th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, detailed results from a clinical trial involving Lecanemab drug for Alzheimer\u2019s disease were published.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The findings indicate the drug was effective in slowing cognitive decline for some patients with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease potentially representing the first significant treatment advance in decades.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Lecanemab?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lecanemab is a drug that is currently in clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Pharma companies Biogen and Eisai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Type<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Lecanemab belongs to a class of drugs called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/serum-institute-of-india-iavi-and-merck-join-forces-to-develop-covid-19-antibodies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monoclonal antibodies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These antibody-mediated drugs target beta-amyloid, the protein deposition that is seen in patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and disrupts cell function.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Alzheimer disease?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aducanumab-approved-by-usfda-for-alzheimers-disease\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained | Will new drug slow the progress of Alzheimer\u2019s?\u201d published in The Hindu on 12th December 2022 What is the News? Recently, detailed results from a clinical trial involving Lecanemab drug for Alzheimer\u2019s disease were published.\u00a0\u00a0 The findings indicate the drug was effective in slowing cognitive&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-will-new-drug-slow-the-progress-of-alzheimers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained | Will new drug slow the progress of Alzheimer\u2019s?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-218353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704790476},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}