PROVIDENCE – Dr. Stephen Salloway, a professor at Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School has dedicated much of his career to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Now, after over two decades and hundreds of articles, his research is demonstrating "the most promising treatment results" he's ever seen.
The results are part of a clinical trial Salloway helped lead for the drug Aducanumab. The antibody aids brain cells in fighting off the amyloid beta proteins that build up and exacerbate the disease's symptoms. Participants in the study had slower cognitive decline thanks to Aducanumab, a finding Salloway hopes will encourage those affected by Alzheimer's.
STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts Comptroller Thomas Shack is poised to give anyone interested the opportunity to take a closer look at the digital innards of state government with a new transparency website aptly called CTHRU.
Rather than going the traditional procurement route, Shack has taken the innovation vibe and run with it, choosing to enter into a subscription with a company called Socrata that takes a no-frills approach to serving up public information on state spending and payroll in a user-friendly manner.
