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The Alzheimer's medication donanemab highly effective at early stages
Posted on 19 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:
Donanemab is an investigational Alzheimer's drug that showed promise in a new clinical trial. It decreased disease progression in patients with early stage Alzheimer's compared to a placebo. However, it was less effective in those with more advanced disease or a genetic risk factor.
Donanemab targets amyloid plaques in the brain, which are thought to cause damage in Alzheimer's. It cleared about 90% of amyloid in the trial.
The drug can cause a side effect called ARIA,...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 16 October.
- Portland Maine burned by British.
- Washington takes Yorktown
- Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
- Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
- John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
- Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
- Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
- Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
- Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
- Disney Co founded
- Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
- Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
- 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
- Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
- Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
- Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
- Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
- China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
- Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
- Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
- Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
- Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
- Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
- Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
- 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.