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Biogen's New Alzheimer's Drug Could Offer Turning Point

After decades of failed treatments, a new drug called Lequmbi is offering some hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. "The medicine’s benefits are modest — it slowed cognitive decline by 27% in an 18-month clinical study run by the Japanese drug firm Eisai and its Cambridge partner Biogen — but hopes are high that it could mark a turning point in Alzheimer’s research," per the Boston Globe
 

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