Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease?

5th July 2021

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Patients and families need hope, not false hope

The US licensing of Biogen’s aducanumab as “the first ever disease modifying drug for Alzheimer’s disease” was hailed as a major advance by many. However, in response to the decision, three members of the Food and Drug Administration’s expert independent advisory committee, which voted almost unanimously against approval, resigned, with Harvard professor of medicine Aaron Kesselheim describing it as “probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history.” 1 Given that existing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have only marginal benefit at best, 2 what does aducanumab’s controversial approval in the US mean for patients, clinicians, and researchers?

• Full article on The BMJ's website

Walsh S, Merrick R, Milne R & Brayne C (2021) Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease? The BMJ, vol. 374, issue 8299

Available at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1682