I believe it was a mistake to approve anti-amyloid drugs like Aducanumab. Big Pharma threatened to stop research on Alzheimer if they couldn't sell this drug and make bumper profits from it. The FDA should never allow itself to be blackmailed in this manner. If drugs don't show a clear improvement, not just the "slowing of the progression" of the disease (which is infinitely debatable and subject to manipulation), they should be rejected.
The amyloid theory is a dead end, a wild goose chase which has led to tunnel vision and wasted three decades of research into Alzheimer. We're essentially back to square one save for some interesting data that viruses may be involved.
This had led to desperate patients seeking help from charlatans and quacks like the one described in this article.
The ongoing charlatan is the FDA and big pharma for peddling drugs that don't work and even do damage like cause brain bleeds. As for the surgery, everyone knows it is experimental.
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I believe it was a mistake to approve anti-amyloid drugs like Aducanumab. Big Pharma threatened to stop research on Alzheimer if they couldn't sell this drug and make bumper profits from it. The FDA should never allow itself to be blackmailed in this manner. If drugs don't show a clear improvement, not just the "slowing of the progression" of the disease (which is infinitely debatable and subject to manipulation), they should be rejected.
The amyloid theory is a dead end, a wild goose chase which has led to tunnel vision and wasted three decades of research into Alzheimer. We're essentially back to square one save for some interesting data that viruses may be involved.
This had led to desperate patients seeking help from charlatans and quacks like the one described in this article.
The ongoing charlatan is the FDA and big pharma for peddling drugs that don't work and even do damage like cause brain bleeds. As for the surgery, everyone knows it is experimental.