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Effect of antiamyloid Alzheimer’s drugs ‘absent or trivial,’ Cochrane review finds


These drugs were hailed by proponents as breakthroughs in the fight to treat Alzheimer’s disease, but a new independent review finds they make “no meaningful difference”

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