Category: Neurology & Neurosurgery

Specialty: Neurology & Neurosurgery

Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment to Receive NIH Grants to Advance Clinical Trials


The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to award up to $70 million over five years to three physician-scientists to launch the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC) – a network of 35 Alzheimer’s disease trial sites across the country – with the goal of finding new ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s. Read More

Study: Multiple Sclerosis Drug Shows Positive Results for Pediatric Patients

Tanuja Chitnis
Tanuja Chitnis

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has shown that administering an oral multiple sclerosis (MS) drug to patients younger than 18 years of age is safe and 82 percent more effective than an injectable treatment that is the current standard of care. Read More