Alzheimer’s Research Offers Doctors ‘Rightful Optimism’ on Care

  • Unfamiliar feeling of hope permeates Boston medical conference
  • Field has ‘momentum that I’ve never seen,’ researcher says

Eisai’s headquarters in Tokyo

Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg
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Neurologists at the biggest Alzheimer’s research meeting in the US experienced something this week they hadn’t in years: optimism.

Just months after Eisai Co.’s Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi received full US approval, normally dour neurologists were buoyed by hints of easier-to-use therapies and the possibility of responding to the disease faster and on multiple fronts over the next few years.