{"id":12895,"date":"2019-03-21T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:47:24","slug":"biogen-halts-studies-of-closely-watched-alzheimers-drug-a-blow-to-hopes-for-new-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12895","title":{"rendered":"Biogen halts studies of closely watched Alzheimer\u2019s drug, a blow to hopes for new treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Adam Feuerstein for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span><\/span>lzheimer\u2019s disease has beaten back another effort to tame it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\">Biogen and its Japanese pharma partner Eisai said Thursday that they were halting two Phase 3 clinical trials of aducanumab, a drug that was designed to slow the worsening of Alzheimer\u2019s by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/07\/25\/experimental-alzheimers-drug-biogen-eisai\/\">targeting brain-destroying protein fragments<\/a>\u00a0known as beta-amyloid.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/03\/21\/biogen-eisai-alzheimer-trial-stopped\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\">\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Adam Feuerstein for STAT) Alzheimer\u2019s disease has beaten back another effort to tame it. Biogen and its Japanese pharma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}