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The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is expanding the availability of its National Toll-Free Helpline — adding weekend hours as well as chat and message features in dozens of languages — to provide greater support to patients and family members. The resource’s hours now are 9 a.m. to…

Biogen and Eisai have submitted a biologics license application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting the approval of aducanumab (BIIB037) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The submission, which was asking for priority review, had been pushed…

To promote brain health, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is offering free online memory screenings that people can participate in from home. The confidential screenings — part of the AFA’s National Memory Screening Program — are provided Mondays and Wednesdays from 10…

AlzeCure Pharma announced positive results from its first clinical study of ACD856 for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. According to the company, ACD856 showed a good pharmacokinetic profile — namely a significantly shorter human half-life than its predecessor, ACD855 — and suitability for further clinical development as…

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals announced it has completed enrollment for the Phase 2 clinical trial of AMX0035 for treating Alzheimer’s disease. The placebo-controlled trial, PEGASUS (NCT03533257), will evaluate the compound’s safety and tolerability among patients with late mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. Other study…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation to Axsome Therapeutics‘ AXS-05, an investigational oral therapy for the treatment of agitation in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This designation is intended to accelerate the development and review of potential…

Scientists used a new imaging technique to assess the structure of amyloid-beta aggregates — known culprits in Alzheimer’s development — that are present inside nerve cells at early stages of the disease, a study reports. These findings, from a mouse model, may…

Experiments on the International Space Station showed gravity affects the formation of amyloids, the pathological tangles of proteins found in the brains of those with Alzheimer’s disease. Both the speed by which they formed and the structure they took in microgravity differed from amyloids formed through similar means in…

Anavex Life Sciences will expand its Phase 2b/3 clinical trial testing the efficacy and safety of Anavex 2-73 (blarcamesine) for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease into Canada and the United Kingdom (U.K.) following the go-ahead from…

Neurotrope has announced the launch of a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the long-term use of bryostatin-1 for moderate and moderately severe Alzheimer’s disease.  The company expects to dose the first patient later this year.