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Early detection of amyloidosis through biopsies allows for ... with swallowing due to the stiffening of the organ and the tongue, which leads to swelling, just to name a few.

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“It doesn’t allow our brain to cleanse itself… of these beta-amyloid plaques,” she notes—a hallmark ... “It will keep your lower jaw in a slightly forward position… so that tongue can’t fall back,” ...

But in just the past year and a half, two anti-amyloid drugs—lecanemab (Leqembi) and donanemab (Kisunla)—that can slow the progression of early Alzheimer’s disease have been approved in the US.

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