{"id":10770,"date":"2019-11-12T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udic.es\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:05:33","slug":"biogen-will-request-the-approval-to-fda-of-a-new-drug-in-early-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udic.es\/en\/biogen-will-request-the-approval-to-fda-of-a-new-drug-in-early-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Biogen will request the approval to FDA of a new drug in early Alzheimer’s disease."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On October 22, 2019, Biogen announced the positive result of its EMERGE clinical trial (in which the UDIC has participated) that has evaluated Aducanumab (an anti-alpha synuclein monoclonal antibody) in early Alzheimer’s disease. Efficacy in slowing cognitive impairment was demonstrated (measured with the CDR-SB, MMSE, ADAS-cog and ADCS-ADL scales) and a reduction in amyloid load detected in PET (almost 80%). The most frequent side effects were cerebral edema (asymptomatic and transient, in general, detected in brain MRI) and headache.These data suport the amyloid hypothesis in this disease and a change in its diagnostic and therapeutic paradigm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 22, 2019, Biogen announced the positive result of its EMERGE clinical trial (in which the UDIC has participated) that has evaluated Aducanumab (an anti-alpha synuclein monoclonal antibody) in early Alzheimer’s disease. Efficacy in slowing cognitive impairment was demonstrated (measured with the CDR-SB, MMSE, ADAS-cog and ADCS-ADL scales) and a reduction in amyloid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alzeimer-en","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n