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For people who’ve had a stroke, finding out why will dictate their management going forward, with a pair of new studies showing that an implantable monitor to look for atrial fibrillation, where part of the heart doesn’t beat in synchrony, …

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“Mind the Gap” is the name of a report undertaken in Maryland to assess what may be missing in the training of nurses to help them be resilient during times such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Cynda Rushton, a professor in …

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Medicare is poised to spend millions of dollars on aducanumab, a just approved drug for Alzheimer’s disease the FDA’s own advisory panel recommended against approving. Caleb Alexander, a member of the panel and an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, …

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Is amyloid, a substance that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, the cause of the disease or simply a bystander? No one knows, and that’s why an FDA advisory panel voted against approving a new drug to …

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The amyloid hypothesis. That’s the idea that accumulation of a material called amyloid in the brain leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Acceptance of this idea has led the FDA to approve aducanumab, which reduces amyloid, but isn’t known to improve any …

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Aducanumab or Aduhelm is a newly approved medicine for treating Alzheimer’s disease, with many experts asserting that it should never have gotten FDA approval. Caleb Alexander, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins and a member of the FDA review …

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Aduhelm is the proprietary name for aducanumab, a just approved medication for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Caleb Alexander, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, sat on the FDA review board for this medicine and explains why he voted no …

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