FDA advisory panel declines to support a controversial Alzheimer’s treatment

The drug, aducanumab, is made by pharmaceutical company Biogen

Biogen headquarters

Pharmaceutical company Biogen is developing a drug that promises to slow, but not stop or reverse, the march of Alzheimer’s in the brain. But not all scientists are convinced that the drug works.

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The fate of a potential new Alzheimer’s drug is still uncertain.