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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robin McKie, Science Editor

New Alzheimer’s drugs bring hope of slowing disease for UK patients

Evidence of Alzheimer’s disease on Pet scans.
Evidence of Alzheimer’s disease on Pet scans. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

People in Britain could benefit from a key medical breakthrough next year. They may be given access to the first drugs ever developed to slow the impact of Alzheimer’s disease.

The first of these medicines – lecanemab – was recently approved in the US and Japan, where treatments using it have already been launched. A second drug, donanemab, is expected to follow soon, and next year it is anticipated that the UK medical authorities will consider both of them for approval in Britain.

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