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Biogen, Eisai Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab fast tracked by FDA

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The anti-amyloid drug, which also claimed a breakthrough tag from the FDA in July, is being developed for the treatment of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The $56,000-a-year price tag for the drug, which has now been cut in half in the US, also hasn’t helped the drugmakers make a case for Aduhelm with US payers.

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Roche’s Early Alzheimer’s Blood Test Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

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Alongside its partnership with Roche on diagnostics, Lilly is also developing an amyloid beta therapy of its own, donanemab. Previously, Roche secured an FDA breakthrough tag for another one of its Alzheimer’s blood tests that detects levels of pTau-181 and ApoE4 (apolipoprotein e4).