Leqembi, which is developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai and the American manufacturer Biogen ... "approved a ...

The first drug targeting the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease has been approved by the European Medicines Agency. Despite ...

The European Medicines Agency re-examined clinical data of a subset of patients with one or no copies of the APOE4 gene ...

Biogen Inc.’s BIIB Japan-based partner, Eisai announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal ...

A European regulatory committee now recommends approval of the Alzheimer’s treatment lecanemab a few months after rejecting ...

Eisai Co., Ltd. (ESALF.PK) and Biogen Inc. (BIIB) announced a positive opinion has been received from the Committee for Medicinal ...

The European Union's drugs regulator reversed its decision to block the Alzheimer's drug lecanemab, a treatment aimed at ...

A European regulatory committee now recommends approval of the Alzheimer’s treatment lecanemab a few months after rejecting ...

Europe's medicines watchdog on Thursday partially approved a marketing request for a long-awaited new treatment for Alzheimer ...

1. About lecanemab (generic name, brand name: Leqembi®) Lecanemab is the result of a strategic research alliance between Eisai and BioArctic. It is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal ...

The agency had previously recommended against marketing authorization for the Alzheimer's disease but reconsidered after a review.

An estimated 4,500 prescriptions have been filled in 2024 so far, Iwatsubo said. About 80 percent of patients have mild cognitive impairment, the rest have mild dementia. Most are in their 70s, and ...