Drug maker Eli Lilly on Monday announced promising results from a small study of an experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug called donanemab.
The two-year, phase 2 clinical trial included 272 patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. The company said that patients who received the drug by infusion every four weeks had a 32 percent slower rate of mental decline than those who were given a placebo, The New York Times reported. After six to 12 months of treatment with the drug, patients no longer had amyloid protein plaques that are hallmarks of Alzheimer disease, according to Daniel Skovronsky, M.D., the company’s chief scientific officer.
However, the findings have not…
