Kisunla, which is the brand name for the drug donanemab-azbt, joins only a handful of other drugs currently approved by the US regulator to treat Alzheimer's, which currently affects more than 6.5 million Americans.
"Kisunla demonstrated very meaningful results for people with early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease," Eli Lilly executive vice president Anne White"We know these medicines have the greatest potential benefit when people are treated earlier in their disease, and we are working hard in partnership with others to improve detection and diagnosis," sheThe FDA's decision was welcomed by the Alzheimer's Association, a non-profit organization focused on eradication of...
"Having multiple treatment options is the kind of advancement we've all been waiting for – all of us who have been touched, even blindsided, by this difficult and devastating disease,"In Alzheimer's disease, two key proteins, tau and amyloid beta, build up into tangles and plaques, known together as aggregates, which cause brain cells to die and lead to brain shrinkage.
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