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June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, and the Alzheimer’s Association is urging patients, caregivers, and supporters to “take action now — for yourself, your loved ones, and for the fight to end Alzheimer’s.” The U.S.-based nonprofit is taking to social media and hosting both virtual and in-person events…

A new patient advocacy organization, the ApoE4 Alzheimer’s Alliance, has launched in the U.S., with a goal of helping advance both supportive policies and the development of treatments for people with Alzheimer’s disease associated with the ApoE4 gene variant. According to the National Institutes of Health, this variant…

Leqembi (lecanemab) has won marketing authorization in the European Union for the treatment of certain adults with early Alzheimer’s disease, making it the first therapy that targets an underlying cause of the neurodegenerative condition to be approved in the region. The treatment is indicated for adults with mild…

Cassava Sciences will discontinue developing simufilam for mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease by the end of the second quarter of this year after the experimental treatment failed to meet key Phase 3 trial goals for improving cognition and daily function. In REFOCUS-ALZ (NCT05026177), patients treated with…

Age at menopause may interact with factors related to the health of synapses, or nerve cell connections, to influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in women, a study found. Associations between biomarkers of poor synapse health and higher levels of Alzheimer’s-related proteins in the brain, as well as steeper…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved monthly maintenance dosing for Leqembi (lecanemab), a treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease. The decision follows a supplemental application from Eisai, which is codeveloping Leqembi with Biogen, based on the modeling of data from the Phase…

Axsome Therapeutics plans this year to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve its oral therapy AXS-05 as a treatment for agitation related to Alzheimer’s disease. The company recently announced results from two Phase 3 trials testing AXS-05. One study, ACCORD-2, hit its…

Muna Therapeutics and GSK said they will collaborate to identify and validate new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease, a step that could pave the way for new treatments for the condition. The research collaboration will leverage Muna’s MiND-MAP platform, which analyzes analyze post-mortem brain samples from…

Being started on a smaller dose of the approved early Alzheimer’s disease therapy Kisunla (donanemab) — by shifting one vial from the first to the third infusion treatment — reduces the risk of ARIA-E, or amyloid-related imaging abnormalities associated with brain swelling, among adults with the neurodegenerative condition. That’s…

November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is encouraging those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease — and their supporters — to wear teal and spread the word on social media to educate people. The AFA notes on its website that it selected…