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Drug donanemab seen as turning point in dementia fight (www.bbc.com)

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The antibody treatment donanemab slows clinical decline by around a third, a large trial confirms.

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[–] BoCanCan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It delays dementia by 4-7 months, and also causes bleeding and swelling in the brain which killed 3 out of 1,700 participants in the study.

It’s better than nothing I guess but it’s not a particularly good treatment.

[–] OptimisticPrime@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, but treatments of something that complex has to start somewhere. It seems to go in the right direction and upcoming treatments may build on that. I am not sure that anyone could have expected after many failures to just find the magical cure that completely cures Alzheimers.