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Biogen, Eisai Alzheimer's drug lecanemab fast tracked by FDA

Biogen and Eisai head towards the end of the year with some much-needed good news in their Alzheimer's programmes, as the FDA awards a fast-track designation to lecanemab, their follow-up t

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Biogen takes axe to Aduhelm price in a bid to drive take-up

Biogen has cut the list price of its Alzheimer's disease therapy in half from $56,000 to $28,200 a year, before the outcome of an ongoing reimbursement review of the drug by the US governme

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Biogen's Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm is rejected by EU advisors

The EMA's human medicines committee has said it cannot approve Biogen and Eisai's Alzheimer's disease therapy Aduhelm, saying it was unconvinced by the data submitted for the drug.

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Viagra 'should be tested as Alzheimer's therapy'

Scientists in the US have found that people who use Viagra for erectile dysfunction seem to have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease – a link that they say should be examined mor

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Novartis takes aim at risky Parkinson's target with $1.5bn U...

Novartis has licensed a potential drug for Parkinson's from Belgium's UCB that it thinks could be the first oral, disease-modifying drug for the disease – if it can avoid the fate of earlie

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