/oss/taxonomy/term/6629/all en /oss/article/medical/hype-hope-and-leqembi <p>The word “qembi” roughly translates as beautiful, elegant or healthy and was somewhat ambitiously chosen as the root for “Leqembi,” the Alzheimer’s disease drug that recently made a big media splash thanks to receiving “accelerated approval” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the first regulatory agency in the world to do so.</p> Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9356 at /oss