China’s Approach to Treat Alzhiemer’s

China has approved the world’s first multi-targeting and carbohydrate-based drug GV-971 for Alzheimer’s disease. China has the highest Alzheimer’s affected population in the world.

GV-971

• It has been extracted from brown algae and can treat mild to moderate forms of the disease and improve cognition.
• This is the only drug out of more than 320 developed by pharmaceutical companies around the globe to survive clinical trials for treating Alzheimer’s.
• The medicine can be taken orally by the patients.

About Alzheimer’s

• It is a progressive brain disorder that typically affects people older than 65. The disease destroys brain cells and ....