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Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough
- ohjeez 4y agoI'm really excited about this. My mom died of Alzheimer's. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
- psyclobe 4y agoSame. Really sucked.
- alexnewman 4y agoWhy would anyone think this works “Lecanemab attacks the sticky gunge - called beta amyloid - that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's” This has been debunked as being the cause of Alzheimer’s . I should be surprised, the press gets every tech article I read totally wrong as well
- jleyank 4y agoSaid better than I can. I think it’s blind hope flogging a biological model that’s not useful. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/lecanemab-and-alzheimer-s-more-data https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/lecanemab-and-alzh...