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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is moving forward with its Alzheimer's drug after seeing encouraging early test results.

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Arrowhead saw lasting tau reductions and mostly mild side effects in healthy volunteers, supporting its drug program. Effects on patients' memory and disease progress are still being studied.

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These results make Arrowhead's brain-delivery approach more credible and support continued work on ARO-MAPT. The reported tau reductions lasted through day 105, and participants mostly had mild side effects. The main limit is that the results came from healthy volunteers. Whether the drug helps people with Alzheimer's think better or slows the disease is still being studied in patients.

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