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FDA Approves ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Alzheimer’s Treatment
breitbart ^ | 06/07/2021 | Hannah Bleau

Posted on 06/07/2021 10:39:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved what it described as a “first-of-its-kind” treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, which it says “targets the fundamental pathophysiology of the disease.”

The approved drug, aducanumab, is what the Washington Post described as the “first drug cleared that is designed to alter the course of the disease by slowing the deterioration of brain function — not just to ease symptoms.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aducanumab; aduhelm; alzheimer; alzheimers; approves; biogen; fda; intravenous; treatment
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To: Karl Spooner

Sorry, I am in a negative mood about our pharma owned health industry. I just watched the video interview of “The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine” and it was painfully eye opening...:-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEAWyfuEWY


41 posted on 06/07/2021 12:16:42 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Plugs going to plug it?
“Some days, I can’t even remember how to get out of the basement...”


42 posted on 06/07/2021 12:23:42 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Cathi

********Sorry, I am in a negative mood about our pharma owned health industry. I just watched the video interview of “The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine” and it was painfully eye opening...:-( ********

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEAWyfuEWY

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No apologies needed! Only a fool would think otherwise.


43 posted on 06/07/2021 12:28:48 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does anyone see how this money maker fits into the pending Alzheimer outbreak soon to materialize from the COVID ‘vaccine?’


44 posted on 06/07/2021 12:40:02 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: Cathi

Avoid “evidence based medicine” like the plague. Go for “I think this will work” medicine.


46 posted on 06/07/2021 12:42:50 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Lou L

I think they got the name by spelling “Bamunacuda” backwards.


47 posted on 06/07/2021 12:43:07 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Buttons12

Cheaper than a nursing home, if it can make that difference.


48 posted on 06/07/2021 12:46:01 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
aducanumab

If you can pronounce it, you don't need it.

49 posted on 06/07/2021 1:18:24 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: Karl Spooner

My dad was involved in an early study of the same drug. Not approved. The dosage has now been changed. There are side effects. Yesterday, it was 50/50 that this would be approved. In one day it has gone from questionable to a “Wonder Drug.” My personal opinion is not high on helping many people. I hope I am wrong. Rotten disease. My dad will probably die from AZ in the next 2 months. Diagnosed over 15 years ago.


50 posted on 06/07/2021 1:33:30 PM PDT by Oystir
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just in time for Joseph Stolen.

Name credit to Gene Eric: LINK

51 posted on 06/07/2021 1:56:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is an easier way to make money with Big Pharma. Take US tax dollars in NIH grants, pay a bunch of Chinese scientists to create the most hideous virus they can think of using Gain of Function techniques, then unleash it upon the world, and while people are dying, hold back and forbid any low cost therapy but just begin selling the new untried and very expensive vaccine to that very virus. Sound familiar?


52 posted on 06/07/2021 3:55:05 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

I had a friend who drove a ‘67 Bamunacuda when we were in high school...


53 posted on 06/08/2021 5:35:19 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: heartwood

It’s no cheaper than a nursing home for those who are penniless.


54 posted on 06/08/2021 7:52:36 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: DoughtyOne; All

“Third member of prestigious FDA panel resigns over approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/third-member-of-prestigious-fda-panel-resigns-over-approval-of-biogens-alzheimers-drug.html


55 posted on 06/11/2021 4:05:19 AM PDT by billyboy15 (')
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To: billyboy15

I’ve had relatives, and known a number of people who suffered
from Alzheimer’s.

There really is a feeling of desperation as this person loses
a little more of themselves each day.

A new medication like this may or may not work, but we know
for sure what happens if the Alzheimer’s is left to continue
destruction.

I say let them try. It’s the only hope these folks have.


56 posted on 06/11/2021 11:49:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve had relatives, and known a number of people who suffered
from Alzheimer’s.

There really is a feeling of desperation as this person loses
a little more of themselves each day.
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My wife of 56 yrs is suffering from this horrible disease and I have watched her slip away from me for the past 5 yrs. I am devoting what remains of my life to her and have done much research on this most horrible of all diseases. She requires 24/7 care and I consider myself blessed by God to be able to have her here at home with me and to be able to afford the cost of in home care.

There has never been a halt to the insidious progression of the disease noted, there has never been a remission and there has never been a medication known to do anything to slow the disease despite claims made to the contrary.

I am all for research continuing to beat this as well as all of the other life ending diseases but the fact that three members of this prestigious board have resigned rather than have their names associated with this new medications says volumes to me.


57 posted on 06/11/2021 12:10:15 PM PDT by billyboy15 (')
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To: billyboy15

That’s a decision you will have to make for yourself.

I would keep a sharp eye out on the people who have elected
to try it. I’d like to see some headway come from it.

There has to be a bit more to the story than it doesn’t work
at all and they approved of it anyway.

I am very leery of claims and counter-claims in this field.

I was a pharmaceutical purchasing agent for 27 years, and
these firms are all over the map on their evaluations, pro
and con.

From this last year you can see what we are dealing with
when it comes to medications and approvals.

Remember, we couldn’t even get clearance for a medication
that had been on the market for over 40 years,
Hydroxycloroquine. I pretty much think of the FDA along
the lines of how I see the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO.

Academia in this field was all over the map this last year.

I don’t remember a one of these people resigning last year
in protest of the Hydroxycloroquine situation.


58 posted on 06/11/2021 2:05:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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