Chronic wasting disease The symptoms of chronic wasting disease reduce infected animals to zombie-like creatures: Stumbling, drooling, drastic weight loss.
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Scientists have known about chronic wasting disease since the 1960s.
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Once chronic wasting disease gets a foothold, it can spread relentlessly.
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CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE THREATENS DEER POPULATION, HUNTING SEASON Chronic wasting disease affects deer, elk and moose and has been spreading across counties in Michigan since it was discovered in a free-ranging deer in May 20193, Michigan Live reported .
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And every year, we see more and more cases of chronic wasting disease.
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Free agency has masked the Mavericks' symptoms, but not cured their wasting disease.
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SPREAD OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE PROMPTS STATES TO CONSIDER NEW RULES FOR HUNTERS
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At the same time, millions of starfish started succumbing to a wasting disease.
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Mr. Newman has pointed out that Parkinson's is not a muscle wasting disease.
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This year is the 50th anniversary of the discovery of chronic wasting disease.
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Charley has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle-wasting disease that is universally fatal.
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Several years ago, starfish succumbed to a wasting disease and vanished from tide pools.
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In 1935, Klee developed scleroderma, a slowly wasting disease that gradually stiffened his body.
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a muscle-wasting disease that affects one in 5,93 newborn males.
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Having suffered since adolescence from a wasting disease, probably tuberculosis, he died tragically young, aged 39.
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Known as chronic wasting disease, the fatal progressive neurodegenerative illness was first identified in the 1960s.
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Pressure has been mounting on the FDA to approve treatments for the progressive, muscle wasting disease.
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But Dr. Zabel now believes that the birth of chronic wasting disease may be more complicated.
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD), also known as "zombie deer disease," has officially spread to 24 US states.
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Duchenne's, a devastating muscle-wasting disease, affects some 15,000 patients in the United States, mostly young boys.
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"Someone, for instance … shoots a deer in Colorado that is infected with chronic wasting disease," Turnipseed explained.
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Wherever unusually warm water temperatures went, destruction from sea star wasting disease followed, clearly implicating climate change.
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Dr. Zabel is also concerned about the potential threat chronic wasting disease might someday pose to humans.
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Wealth Matters Alice Anane's father died suddenly of a brutal brain-wasting disease when he was 49.
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"It's like watching someone you love die of a wasting disease," she said, speaking of our country.
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Dr. Zabel and other scientists are trying to figure out how chronic wasting disease has become so successful.
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"I have only seen one deer that has died of [chronic wasting disease] and it was emaciated," he said.
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But it's quite different: a gene therapy for a muscle-wasting disease and leading genetic cause of infant mortality.
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Across a growing swath of North America, these animals are dying from a mysterious disorder called chronic wasting disease.
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As of August, chronic wasting disease, also known as "zombie deer disease," had officially spread to 24 US states.
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Instead, they refer to chronic wasting disease, a fatal progressive neurodegenerative illness believed to affect deer, elk, reindeer, and moose.
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Another iconic species faces a different threat: chronic wasting disease (CWD), a sort of mad cow disease that can infect reindeer.
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The "chronic wasting disease" has been identified in 24 states and can be transferred to humans who eat the tainted meat.
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The researchers will test this hypothesis by seeing if the prevalence of chronic wasting disease drops after they set their fires.
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In 1991, for instance, a Texas boy named Ryan Dant was diagnosed with a fatal muscle-wasting disease called mucopolysaccharidosis type 1.
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Two months after Anna's body was found, her mother, Lizzie, also died of the same vague wasting "disease" that had claimed Minnie.
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In 2013 and 2014, a shocking number of starfish died along the Pacific coast, their bodies melting away from a mysterious wasting disease.
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As a graduate student in 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Another form, chronic wasting disease, is having a devastating effect on wild deer, elk and moose; it is highly contagious among the animals.
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In 2013, sea star wasting disease caused a massive die-off of multiple starfish species up and down the Pacific Coast of North America.
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Scientists long suspected that deer and related species developed chronic wasting disease by picking up scrapie from sheep flocks kept at Colorado State University.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare muscle-wasting disease that primarily affects boys.
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Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero says he has a volunteer -- a man suffering from a muscle-wasting disease -- so all he needs now is a body.
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But there's another study tracking people who ate venison that had been exposed to chronic wasting disease in 2005, and so far, they've shown no symptoms.
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The drug was granted accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration and it treats patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare, genetic muscle-wasting disease.
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Hawking's brilliant intellect and unflinching personality famously contrasted with the wasting disease from which he suffered for most of his life, limiting his movements and speech.
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In the 1800s, consumption was the name of a terrible, yet weirdly chic, wasting disease later known as tuberculosis, glamorized in both society and the arts.
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The drug is the first approved to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare, genetic muscle-wasting disease, and was given accelerated approval, the FDA said.
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In fact, despite the wasting disease that had been going around in the spring of 2015, there were weirdly more baby starfish in the water than ever.
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SCIENCE TIMES A picture caption with an article on Tuesday about the spread of chronic wasting disease among deer populations in North America misidentified a game warden.
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From reauthorizing the Chesapeake Bay Program to combating chronic wasting disease and controlling the spread of invasive species, this legislation brings regional and differing political interests together.
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According to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, CWD causes the animals to lose their fear of humans, become emaciated and exhibit erratic behavior, hence the "zombie" nickname.
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The bottom line: The study warned that continued exposure to sea star wasting disease, along with warming waters, could cause the predatory sunflower sea star to disappear completely.
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Chronic wasting disease , or CWD, affects the central nervous system of not only deer but moose and elk, and can cause disorientation, emaciation, excessive drinking, drooling and urination.
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That curiosity remained intact even as a neuromuscular wasting disease robbed him of bodily control, save for the flexing of a finger or the darting of the eyes.
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"It's a very unusual disease," said Matthew Dunfee, an expert at the Wildlife Management Institute in Fort Collins, Co. and project director for the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD), also known as "zombie deer disease," in 24 states and two Canadian provinces.
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In May, Novartis gave a similar reasoning on pricing for its one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a muscle-wasting disease and leading genetic cause of infant mortality.
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Authorities say that the animal couldn't just be released back into the wild for fear that it might carry chronic wasting disease which cannot be tested in live deer.
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The therapy, Zolgensma, is a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a muscle-wasting disease and leading genetic cause of infant mortality that affects one in every 11,000 births.
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Freedom Sausage is responsible for disposing of any byproducts and separating any meat from deer thought to have Chronic Wasting Disease, a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose.
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She said it seemed like a "no-brainer" to start captive breeding programs, both for future reintroduction to the wild and to study the dynamics of sea star-wasting disease.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved a drug made by Marathon Pharmaceuticals to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a devastating muscle-wasting disease that mainly affects young boys.
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Still, the experimental research spurred Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, to compare chronic wasting disease to mad cow recently.
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That has increased investor scrutiny of Biogen's Alzheimer's treatment, aducanumab, which is under a late-stage clinical trial that could establish it as a breakthrough treatment for the memory-wasting disease.
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in wild deer, elk and moose in 277 counties in 24 states as of August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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If a group of schoolkids in Arkansas can help spur groundbreaking science to help solve the mystery of sea star wasting disease and its links to climate change, anyone can help.
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Chronic wasting disease can incubate for more than a year before animals present symptoms, so the CDC recommends hunters test meat before consuming it and avoid eating the meat of infected venison.
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What they found in the living room of this suburban Detroit double-wide mobile home was Troy Stone, who suffers Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a particularly debilitating variation of the muscle-wasting disease.
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Dementia - a brain-wasting disease - affects around 50 million people globally, with nearly 10 million new cases annually - a figure that is set to triple by 2050, according to the World Health Organization.
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The couple attributes the improvement to eteplirsen, a drug that's been shown to improve the ability to walk in boys who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare and fatal muscle-wasting disease.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare muscle-wasting disease that, in its most severe form, kills many babies before they turn 2.
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At the time of the wasting disease outbreak — the cause of which is still unknown, but may be linked to warmer temperatures — many larvae spawned by dying sea stars were still at sea.
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It's been at least 15 years since the FDA has reviewed an application for a new Alzheimer's treatment, and an agent that can slow progression of the mind-wasting disease is desperately needed.
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" Even so, the CDC says the experimental studies "raise the concern that [chronic wasting disease] may pose a risk to people and suggest that it is important to prevent human exposures to [the disease].
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Rankin also says that if the deer had been infected by chronic wasting disease (a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose), moving her a far distance would risk the spread of infection.
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Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in wild deer, elk and moose in 24 states and two Canadian provinces by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as of January, according to USA Today.
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The population has fluctuated over time, Dr. Carman said, possibly after a "wasting disease" infected the local eelgrass population, causing much of the grass to die off and leaving the clinging jellyfish without enough habitat.
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The Swiss drugmaker is expected this year to launch its gene therapy called Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy, a muscle-wasting disease and leading genetic cause of infant mortality, affecting one in every 11,000 live births.
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Officials in Nevada have been testing carcasses of deer and elk to monitor Chronic Wasting Disease, a highly contagious nervous system disease that affects cervids — meaning elk, deer, moose and reindeer — the Las Vegas Sun reported.
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The Nevada Department of Wildlife is urging hunters to visit their mobile sampling stations and check their carcasses for chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that affects the brain and spinal cord of deer, elk and moose.
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The sea star wasting disease is an example of how a cascade triggered by climate change can impact everyone from fishermen trying to earn a living to an eager six-year old on the beach exploring tidepools.
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The fatal ailment, known as chronic wasting disease (CWD) and caused by a mysterious kind of protein called a prion, doesn't seem capable of crossing the species barrier and spreading to humans—at least according to this experiment.
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Along with Osterholm, Jeremy Schefers, a veterinary diagnostician at the University of Minnesota, was recently entreating lawmakers in his state for research funding to develop better diagnostic tools and help scientists answer basic questions about chronic wasting disease.
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Lapp, along with the deer-farming industry as a whole, is facing a crisis in the form of chronic wasting disease, a plague that attacks white-tailed deer, elk, moose, reindeer, and other members of the cervid family.
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LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.
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The demise of aducanumab came after independent experts determined the trials had little hope of succeeding, marking the latest setback in the quest to treat a mind-wasting disease that affects 5.7 million people in the United States alone.
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Led by Drew Harvell, a Cornell University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, the authors found that a recent outbreak of sea star wasting disease reduced the population by 80 to 100 percent across 3,000 kilometers of its territory.
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Though chronic wasting disease has not been detected in the vast herds of elk, or in deer and moose in Yellowstone, officials are worried it will find its way into the park and diminish the size of the herds.
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So anyone who finds themselves hunting in areas where chronic wasting disease is known to spread should take the following precautions, according to the CDC: So what about consumers of game meat, like venison, and the restaurants that serve it?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc on Tuesday said it will end another late-stage trial of an Alzheimer's drug because it was unlikely to work, adding to the pile-up of failures to find an effective treatment for the mind-wasting disease.
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If there is any silver lining to the awful wasting disease that took Gord Downie last night, it's that he knew he was living the last chapter of his life, and that he used that time wisely and for a noble purpose.
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In a study published Thursday in Science, a team led by Eric Olson at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center used Crispr to successfully modify the DNA of four young dogs, reversing the molecular defect responsible for their muscle wasting disease.
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On the edge of this south-central Montana village, where deer hunting is a way of life, the game check station has become the front line of the state's efforts to stop the spread of a deadly infection known as chronic wasting disease.
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FRANKFURT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - An Alzheimer's vaccine developed by a privately held Slovakian biotech firm showed early signs of efficacy in a mid-stage trial, in a rare step forward in the fight against the brain-wasting disease, the company said on Monday.
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The turnabout has raised concern that the company is being more optimistic than its trial results warrant as it makes a case for a desperately needed treatment that, if approved, could be the first to slow progression of the mind-wasting disease.
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Among the regulations will be a statewide ban on the use of all natural cervid urine-based lures, and an immediate ban on baiting and feeding in the 16 counties that make up the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone, according to the state's website .
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"It is probable that human cases of chronic wasting disease associated with consumption with contaminated meat will be documented in the years ahead," Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said at a hearing before Minnesota lawmakers.
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For Microsoft co-founder Gates, launch of the Diagnostics Accelerator program follows an announcement in November of a personal investment of $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund aimed at bringing together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.
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Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks: The Swiss drugmaker's experimental drug gantenerumab failed to slow cognitive decline in people with a rare inherited form of Alzheimer's disease, the latest setback for companies hunting for a cure for the devastating brain-wasting disease.
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NEW YORK, May 230 (Reuters) - Traders in the options market are looking for a big move in Sarepta Therapeutics Inc shares this week when U.S. regulators are due to decide whether the company can market the experimental drug eteplirsen to treat mutations that cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease.
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It's a fantasy that is familiar to many women — if only someone would hurt me so that I couldn't eat, or if only I got some kind of horrible wasting disease or a tapeworm, I could fix my body and then my real life would start — and one that Insatiable embraces wholeheartedly.
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CHICAGO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Biogen Inc and partner Eisai Co Ltd are ending two late-stage trials of their experimental Alzheimer's disease drug aducanumab, a major setback in the quest to find a treatment for the mind-wasting disease and a blow to Biogen, which lost more than $18 billion of its value on Thursday.
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"We knew before we went that they didn&apost have the facilities, so we contacted them ahead but they said there was nothing they were willing to do about it," Senior said of her family's efforts to coordinate accommodations ahead of their trip for her 20-year-old brother Jacob, who has terminal wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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