This is personal to me because my Father died with Alzheimers, and having had to watch his torment in his last years was heart-breaking. I'm sure you guys know people who have or have had it, so this is the best news to come along in quite a while.
The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide on Thursday whether to grant traditional approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the memory-robbing disease.
An approval decision would also be expected to trigger a change in how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services covers the drug, broadening access for up to an estimated million people with early forms of the disease.
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The FDA no longer issues drug approvals based on science. It's now based on bribery, favoritism and political agendas. This drug could actually CAUSE Alzheimer's for all we know and still get approval because the regulators were bought and paid for by Big Pharma.
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DeleteThe fact that those with Alzheimer's have "good" days (at least initially) shows that at least *something* can be reversed sometimes. That's a big clue. But at this late date it's clear that *anything* based on the "amyloid plaque" model is doomed to failure. They've confused cause and effect.
You can argue, but there can be no progress in the self imposed vaccuum of trust that the medical fields have become.
pardon me if (@ 82) I wonder who developed it, their qualifications, and what the side-effects are. it looks wonderful, as I watch my aging brain and see what aging is doing to my friends (cohort). and then I think about the recent covid vaccines - not too kindly. not too kindly at all. you don't mind, do you, if you don't see me the first in line!
ReplyDeleteUnless it cures it, reverses it, stops it, etc, it is ultimately worthless. Once the abilities are lost, the terror and anxiety set in, etc the sooner its all over the better. We aren't talking about a disease that interrupts one's life for a period and then things can get back to normal. This is a disease that destroys the brain permanently and ultimately is fatal. And one the brain is gone, more time might make the family feel better, but not the sufferer of the disease. And yes, I have two familial and several other non family history with this disease.
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