Next Steps For New Alzheimer’s Treatment

Newswise — CHICAGO, June 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — As the global nonprofit leader in Alzheimer’s research and science we have extensively reviewed the clinical trial data for Aduhelm™ (aducanumab). Based on the trial data, the treatment demonstrated an efficacious result which has also been confirmed by leading scientists in the Alzheimer’s and dementia scientific community and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Alzheimer’s Association’s research experts and advisors are deeply familiar with the basic and regulatory science that led to the FDA’s decision. They were right to approve this treatment.

Additionally, the FDA appropriately took into account the vast unmet need of the Alzheimer’s community. Aduhelm is certainly not a cure, but at long last it provides many with Alzheimer’s disease and their families an effective treatment. The confirmatory trial should…

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