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SCarletRoAD Trial of Gantenerumab in Prodromal Alzheimer’s Discontinued

German biotechnology company, MorphoSys, was informed by its partner, Swiss global health-care company, Roche, about their decision to discontinue gantenerumab‘s Phase III SCarletRoAD trial for prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease patients. This decision is supported by a recommendation from the Independent Data Monitoring Committee, and by a pre-planned futility assessment. According to Roche, the trial was…

NDA for Alzheimer’s Combined Drug Namzaric Approved by FDA

Actavis and Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has accepted Namzaric‘s New Drug Application (NDA) as a fixed-dose combination of memantine hydrochloride extended-release, a NMDA receptor antagonist, and donepezil hydrochloride, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer’s Disease in patients stabilized on memantine hydrochloride…

New MRI Method May Help Detect Early Stage Alzheimer’s

A new, sensitive molecular magnetic resonance imaging contrast probe was recently developed by a team of researchers from Northwestern University. The study, entitled “Towards non-invasive diagnostic imaging of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease” was published in Nature Nanotechnology by Kirsten L. Viola, first author of the study, and led…

Can Lost Memories Be Restored in Alzheimer’s Patients?

A recent study published in the journal eLife suggests that it might be possible to restore lost memories. Over the past century, evidence suggested that long-term memories are expressed in the brain by changes in synaptic connections, which are destroyed in neurodegenerative disorders. However, in a recent news…

Arjuna Receives U.S. Patent for Investigational Alzheimer’s Therapy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Arjuna Natural Extracts Ltd. a U.S. patent for the company’s turmeric extract formulation, BCM-95 Curcumin, which is expected to become a treatment for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The patent number 8859020 describes the drugs’s combination of beneficial curcuminoids and turmeric…