Aducanumab

Feb 12, 2025

Alzheimer's disease continues to pose a significant challenge to global healthcare systems, with the 7MM reporting approximately 16 million diagnosed prevalent cases in 2023. This rising AD prevalence highlights an urgent need for innovative treatments to mitigate the growing disease burden on both patients and car...

Nov 10, 2020

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine heralded as the showstopper with over 90% effectiveness  Based on the interim data from the Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial results, the pharma titan, Pfizer, announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing coronavirus infection. Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey...

Oct 23, 2019

Not a long time ago this year, Biogen announced the halting of Phase III clinical trials, EMERGE and ENAGE, of its most looked upon drug aducanumab under simulations for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease called futility analysis. The drug was designed to help patients struggling with mild cognitive impairmen...

Mar 27, 2019

Alzheimer’s is one of the diseases which are irreversible and untreatable. With causes still unknown adds to the further conundrum.  But for more than two decades now Scientists from everywhere have been working on the “amyloid hypothesis". It has been a long-standing theory that brains of the people affected ...