An Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly and Co. failed to slow memory decline in two separate patient studies, but the drug did show some potential to help in mild cases.
An Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly and Co. failed to slow memory decline in two separate patient studies, but the drug did show some potential to help in mild cases.
The Indianapolis drugmaker’s announcement could be a step toward a long-awaited breakthrough in the fight against the disease. But researchers not tied to the studies – and Eli Lilly itself – cautioned against overreacting to the initial results on the treatment, solanezumab.
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Researchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly & Co. for a large federally funded study aiming to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in older people at high risk of developing it.
Do you have a loved one who has Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia? There are resources out there that you may not be aware of — and a group of volunteers is working to change that.
It’s been close to three years since Lon Cole was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Today, the Puyallup man will add another title to a long list of them. Already a former soldier — a combat medic — he is a husband, father, grandfather. Today, Cole becomes a published poet.
Thurston County sheriff’s deputies have located a 83-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who went missing from his home in the area of Kagy Street and 54th Avenue late Thursday night.
Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores, has died. He was 91.
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