Treatment is produced by Japanese drugmaker Eisai and Massachusetts-based Biogen.
Northwestern Medicine, which has 11 hospitals in Illinois, told FOX Business on Monday that qualifying patients will gradually start the treatment within the next one to two months. The rollout will start at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago and eventually expand system-wide, a spokesperson for Northwestern Medicine said.
A spokesperson for the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, a health care system with nine hospitals headquartered in Valhalla, New York, said it plans to offer the drug "but not imminently as research is ongoing." told FOX Business this is the first time the FDA has approved a drug that has been shown to "slow down the
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