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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?U.S. officials granted full approval to a聽closely watched Alzheimers drug聽on Thursday, clearing the way for Medicare and other insurance plans to begin covering the treatment for people with the brain-robbi stanley cup ng disease.The Food and Drug Administration endorsed the IV drug, Leqembi, for patients with mild dementia and other symptoms caused by early Alzheimer disease. Its the first medicine thats been convincingly shown to modestly slow Alzheimers cognitive decline.Japanese drugmaker Eisai received聽conditional approval聽from the FDA in January based on early results suggesting Leqembi worked by clearing a sticky brain plaque linked to the disease.The FDA confirmed those results by reviewing data from a larger, 1,800-patient study in which the drug slowed memory and thinking decline by about five months in those who got the treatment, compared to those who got a dummy drug. This confirmatory study verified that it is a safe and effective treatment for patients with Alzheimers disease, said FDA neurology drug director, Teresa Buracchio, in a statement.The drug prescribing information will carry the most serious type of warning, indicating that Leqembi can cause brain swelling and bleeding, side effects that can be dangerous in rare cases. The label notes that those problems are seen with other plaque-targe stanley cup ting Alzheimer drugs.WATCH: New drugs show small but positive results in fight stanley cup against AlzheimersThe process of converting Mimv Pittsburgh mayor overhauls how police handle civil protests
BEIJING AP 鈥?Checkpoints and rows of police vehic air force 1 les lined a major road leading to Beijing Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police took at least two af1 people off the streets as the effort to prevent any public remembrance extended beyond the mainland.READ MORE: After Hong Kong crackdown, overseas tributes help keep Tiananmen memories aliveChina has long quashed any memory of the crackdown, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. An estimated 180,000 troops and armed police rolled in with tanks and armored vehicles, and fired into crowds trying to block them as they pushed toward the student-led demonstration on Tiananmen Square.The death toll remains unknown to this day. Hundreds, if not thousands are believed to have been killed in an operation that started the night before and ended on the morning of June 4, 1989.The crackdown became a turning point in modern Chinese history, ending a crisis in favor of Communist Party hardliners who advocated for control instead of political reforms.The economy boomed in the ensuing decades, turning a once impoverished country into the world second largest economy, but societal controls have been tightened since party leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012.Across China, the event remains a sensitive and taboo subject that is hea stanley cup vily censored, with any |
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