Infusion Drugs to Battle Alzheimer's Disease Give Hope to Western PA Patients
Trib Live: At age 57, Christine Lieb of Scottdale has hope that the new treatments she is undergoing for early onset Alzheimer’s disease will give her more time to enjoy her life.
“I feel 100% better when I’m done. I feel it when it is time to have another one,” Lieb said. She was referring to infusion of the drug Leqembi she receives at Independence Health System’s Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg.
She receives the treatments every two weeks, with her sixth infusion set for mid-August.
Lieb is among the initial group of about a dozen patients at Independence’s Greensburg and Butler hospitals who have been receiving one of two drugs that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved to treat Alzheimer’s.
