{"id":163488,"date":"2023-05-07T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-drug-slows-alzheimers"},"modified":"2023-05-07T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:22:44","slug":"new-drug-slows-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-drug-slows-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"New drug slows Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-slows-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drug company Eli Lilly reports that donanemab can slow the pace of Alzheimer\u2019s disease by 35%, following a Phase 3 study in human patients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain scans of Alzheimer\u2019s patients with treatment (A and B) and placebo \u00a9, showing clearance of amyloid plaques. Credit: Eli Lilly.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Alzheimer\u2019s has become an increasingly major public health issue. The prevalence of this disease \u2013 a progressive neurological disorder that affects memory, thinking, and behaviour \u2013 is being driven by aging populations, changes in lifestyle factors, and improvements in diagnostic techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug company Eli Lilly reports that donanemab can slow the pace of Alzheimer\u2019s disease by 35%, following a Phase 3 study in human patients. Brain scans of Alzheimer\u2019s patients with treatment (A and B) and placebo \u00a9, showing clearance of amyloid plaques. Credit: Eli Lilly. In recent years, Alzheimer\u2019s has become an increasingly major public [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}