The world will hold its breath today as full results from donanemab trials are published for the first time.
They are expected to show the intravenous drug is the best hope yet of putting the handbrake on incurable brain-wasting diseases like Alzheimer's.
US pharma giant Eli Lilly will reveal final updates on initial findings that showed donanemab slowed the rate at which memory and thinking skills decline by 36 per cent.
It could allow sufferers to continue near normal lives, slowing the rapid decline which is a hallmark of the cruel disease.
The results are expected to be announced at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Amsterdam.
Samantha Benham-Hermetz, of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "We're a step closer to a world where Alzheimer's is treatable.
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