The Latest Breaking News from Biogen

The U.S. Medicare program’s decision to tightly limit coverage for the first drug meant to slow the course of Alzheimer’s disease has raised the stakes for companies trying to make the next one.

Medicare has decided once and for all not to pay for Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm unless patients are enrolled in a clinical study.

Medicare says it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program costs

The U.S. Medicare program finalized a plan to only pay for Biogen Inc.’s Alzheimer’s therapy when it’s used in approved clinical trials, while offering a road map to cover drugs that do show clinical benefit in the disease.

Biogen Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: IONS) have 

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Biogen Inc. on Wednesday published the full efficacy results from two late-stage studies of its Alzheimer’s disease drug Aduhelm in a lesser-known medical journal, nine months after U.S. regulators cleared the treatment.

Biogen Inc (NASDAQ:BIIB) has announced new data from the long-term extension phase of the Phase 3 trials of Aduhelm (aducanumab-avwa) in Alzheimer's disease. The data exhibited that after nearly two and a half years of treatment (128 weeks) with Aduhelm, patients continued to experience significant reductions in two key Alzheimer's disease pathologies, amyloid-beta…

Patients who received Biogen's Alzheimer's drug for over two years showed slower cognitive decline — leading Biogen stock to tick higher.