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Monday, April 19, 2010

GE Healthcare : positive Phase 2 data with flutemetamol and Phase 3 program now underway

GE HealthcareApril 9, 2010 – GE Healthcare will present results from its multicenter phase 2 study of flutemetamol at the 4th annual Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) Meeting in Toronto, Canada. Flutemetamol is a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent in development by GE Healthcare, in the field of brain imaging.

The purpose of the phase 2 study was to investigate the efficacy of flutemetamol in differentiating between patients with clinically probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitively intact healthy volunteers (HVs). In the study, subjects with a high probability of amyloid (27 AD patients) and a low probability of amyloid (25 healthy subjects) underwent PET imaging with flutemetamol... GE Healthcare's Press Release -