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Thursday pharma headlines

World of DTC Marketing

Merck’s old drugs are under more scrutiny, and anti-vaxxers are causing problems by cherry-picking unreliable information. regulators knew about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the anti-baldness treatment Propecia when they decided not to warn consumers of those potential risks in a 2011 update of the popular drug’s label.

Pharma 180
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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline. Treatment with the mAbs delayed cognitive decline by 2.6 months for lecanemab and 5.5