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Higher Medicare premium blamed on Alzheimer’s medicine
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WASHINGTON — Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient premium will jump by $21.60 a month in 2022, one of the largest increases ever. Officials said Friday a new Alzheimer’s drug is responsible for about half of that.
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The debate on Aducanumab continues
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The results of the clinical studies submitted by the drug’s manufacturer, Biogen, and the FDA’s accelerated approval, have been highly criticized by experts in the field.
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Yes a new medicine but many questions still
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The recent FDA approval of a new medicine for Alzheimer’s has still some questions about who is eligible to get it, the costs and more. Read the article in our link for today for some insights.
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YES new drug approved for Alzheimer’s
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Truly great news today, the new drug Aducanumab has been approved by the FDA for use in early Alzheimer’s cases.
The drug was developed for patients with mild cognitive impairment, not severe dementia, and intended to slow progression of Alzheimer’s disease — not just ease symptoms.
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Finally a cure?
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A drug called aducanumab could become the first approved treatment designed to alter the course of Alzheimer’s disease rather than relieve symptoms.
But it’s unclear whether the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug because of persistent questions about its effectiveness.
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A new approach to treat Alzheimer’s disease
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A new approach to treat Alzheimer’s disease, potentially targeting the root cause of memory decline
The ACT-AD and LIFT-AD trials are evaluating if a new investigational drug is safe and effective in improving symptoms of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
The investigational drug of the ACT-AD and LIFT-AD trials is designed to:
- Boost a repair and regenerative pathway for brain cells
- Promote brain health and function
There may be a trial near you check it out
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A safer Alzheimer’s drug
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In 2018, a research group led by David Holtzman, M.D., at Washington University in St. Louis developed an antibody drug in collaboration with Denali Therapeutics that showed promise as a potential Alzheimer’s disease therapy. Now, the team has returned with mouse data suggesting the drug prospect might be a safer option than Biogen’s much-hyped aducanumab.
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Alzheimer’s Risk Reduced By Getting Flu
A Vaccine for Alzheimer’s Disease?
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Swiss biopharma AC Immune has made targeting Alzheimer’s disease, the leading form of dementia, a top priority. The company’s numerous candidates and platforms target several different proteins and pathways thought to have a central role in Alzheimer’s pathology. 2020 has brought mixed news for AC Immune. In July, the company announced that their candidate tau vaccine, ACI-35.030, had shown “encouraging” safety data at a lower dose and was to be progressed to a higher-dose group. However, September brought the disappointing news that their anti-tau antibody, semorinemab, did not meet its primary efficacy endpoints in a Phase 2 trial. To discuss AC Immune’s work, Technology Networks spoke to CEO Prof. Andrea Pfeifer.
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The FDA hasn’t approved an Alzheimer’s drug for 15 years.
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Listen to the podcast in our link for today to get a better appreciation of what the issues involved are.
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FDA does not approve new Alzheimer’s drug
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Government health advisers sharply criticized a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug on Friday, concluding there wasn’t enough evidence that the experimental drug slowed the brain-destroying disease.
The panel of outside experts for the Food and Drug Administration agreed that a pivotal study in patients failed to show “strong evidence” that the drug worked. The experts warned of multiple “red flags” with the data, which did not initially show any benefit until another analysis with later results.
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Get your flu shot, avoid Alzheimer’s
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Everyone has their eyes on this year’s flu season, which is predicted to collide with the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
The CDC and other health agencies are already issuing strong recommendations to the public to get their flu shot as early as possible.
In addition to protecting against the flu, flu shots may also have an unexpected benefit: lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Ground-Breaking Alzheimer’s Study Administers First Dose
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The first infusion of an investigational drug that aims to delay or help to prevent the earliest memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease took place in September at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., researchers announced.
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Alzheimer’s drug for Autistic kids?
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An interesting development is that apparently an experimental drug, aimed to help people with Alzheimer’s, could play a role in helping children with certain types of Autims. Read the full story in our link for today.
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A better test for Alzheimer’s
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Clinical trials of Alzheimer’s medicines have failed frequently but now researchers believe that this may have been caused by the drugs given too late. So if they could just develop a test that would detect Alzheimer’s earlier, it would make the drugs that have failed for use later in the process, so much more productive.
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Getting Alzheimer’s drugs faster
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This sounds like good news. Scientists have found a way to speed up the testing of Alzheimer’s drugs.
Alzheimer’s clinical trials may take decades, but a new discovery could cut clinical trial time down to a matter of weeks.
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Asthma drug for Alzheimer’s?
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A laboratory study has found that the asthma drug salbutamol prevents the formation of tangles of fibrous protein that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The next step will be to test the drug in animal models of the disease.
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We can’t wait
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For this to hit the market: There are two drugs that have been developed by Salk Institute researchers to successfully treat Alzheimer’s in mice—and now, they have found that the very same drug compounds can also slow the aging process in the brains of healthy older mice.
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Re-evaluating a drug for Alzheimer’s
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Today we link to the article from Scientific American that tells the story about the reassessment of costs vs benefits for aducanumab.
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Hope from a new drug
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Alzheimer’s disease affects some 5 million people in the United States, and as the population ages, doctors estimate those affected will more than double by 2050.
A new drug might offer new hope, WOWT reported.
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Alzheimer surprise drug
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Despite many promising leads, more than 120 drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease have failed. But Cambridge-based biotech company Biogen revived hope on Tuesday with its announcement that it would seek Food and Drug Administration approval for a drug it abandoned earlier this year.
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That new medicine for Alzheimer’s
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The biotech world went into a full-on frenzy Tuesday when drug giant Biogen dropped this whopper: The company is reviving its Alzheimer’s drug hopeful, aducanumab, after leaving it for dead all the way back in March. In fact, it’s marching forward with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) application to approve the drug for certain patients facing cognitive decline.
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China has a new Alzheimer’s drug
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- China has approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease.
- But many experts remain skeptical without more evidence and phase 3 trials are ongoing.
- The drug works to alter bacteria in the gut microbiome to affect changes in the brain.
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Hope for a new drug from Slovakia
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An Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by a privately held Slovakian biotech firm showed early signs of efficacy in a mid-stage trial, a rare step forward in the fight against the brain-wasting disease, the company said on Monday.
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Hypertension treatment may slow down Alzheimer’s progression
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Researchers have found that nilvadipine, a drug that doctors regularly use to treat hypertension, may help people with Alzheimer’s disease by increasing blood flow to the brain.
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Is the Alzheimer’s vaccine coming?
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A cure for Alzheimer’s Disease does not exist just yet, but researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are one step closer to finding one.
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Blood Pressure Med Might Help Fight Alzheimer’s
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Treatment with blood pressure medication can improve blood flow to a key brain region in people with Alzheimer’s disease, a small clinical trial has found.
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Is this why we make more progress with cancer vs Alzheimer’s
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Alzheimer’s drugs cost seven times more than cancer drugs to develop
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Status of Alzheimer’s research
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There are roughly 326 active, recruiting or enrolling by invitation clinical trials on the elusive disease, per clinicaltrial.gov. The U.S. last year dramatically stepped up funding for Alzheimer’s disease research, from $400 million a year to over $2 billion annually, although the Alzheimer’s Association says more is needed.
The biggest problem: Scientists still don’t know the cause of Alzheimer’s.
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