Michele Hall, who has early Alzheimer’s, calls the new drug Aduhelm “the first tiny glimmer of hope” that she might have more quality time with her husband and their three adult children. In the weeks since a new Alzheimer’s drug was approved, hopeful patients have bombarded Dr. Alireza Atri with calls and emails about a treatment that has sparked both …
In the weeks since a new Alzheimer’s drug was approved, hopeful patients have bombarded Dr. Alireza Atri with calls and emails about a treatment that has sparked both excitement and skepticism. “I don’t want to see people pull their mothers from nursing homes to get this treatment,” said Dr. Babak Tousi, a Cleveland Clinic geriatrician who consulted with Biogen and …
LOADING ERROR LOADING You might expect Mariah Robertson to applaud last week’s approval of a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease. In the meantime, the Aduhelm decision could set a precedent for how the FDA approaches other treatments ― an “enormously risky move,” as STAT writer Matthew Herper put it, “that could accelerate the public’s access to medicines but upend the …
