A long-awaited drug treatment which can halt Alzheimer’s disease may be on the horizon after promising results from an early stage clinical trial. Experts are taking care not to build up false hopes about the antibody drug, aducanumab, which clears away sticky protein fragments in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s. But according to one leading charity, the first disease-modifying therapy for the devastating brain condition may now be within sight.
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