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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School via the Washington Post , says “the worst thing for people with Alzheimer’s would be to put out a product that doesn’t work.” Still, Alzheimer’s is a nasty disease, and people are desperate for treatment even if it only provided a slim chance of partial recovery.

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New approach to improving clinical trial enrollment and diversity

Medical Xpress

Failure to enroll enough participants in trials can delay the arrival of new therapies in the clinic and inflate their eventual price tags. For example, a drug that proves effective for White patients might not work as well in people of other races or ethnicities.

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A gene therapy for hemophilia that costs $3.5 million gets FDA approval

Medical Xpress

People with one form of the genetic blood disorder hemophilia now have a one-time treatment with a $3.5 million price tag.

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Big numbers blur policy ambitions

Scienmag

Government policies often are presented with hefty price tags, but people often zone out as more zeros are added to the total cost.

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Why do we remember emotional events better than non-emotional ones?

Medical Xpress

Most people remember emotional events—like their wedding day—very clearly, but researchers are not sure how the human brain prioritizes emotional events in memory.

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Grand Rounds April 14, 2023: RECOVER in Action – Status of Clinical Trial Protocols (Kanecia Zimmerman, PhD, MD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

We have people with experience with post-viral symptoms, treating ME/CFS, general COVID knowledge, biomarker experience, clinical trials, patient-reported outcomes, and more. – As people think about the health measures and outcomes, can you describe the process for how to understand and select those types of measures? .

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Grand Rounds August 4, 2023: AI & ML: Want to Play a Game? (Eric Perakslis, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

It’s important that people apply good judgement when utilizing these new technologies, especially in fields of science and medicine. Serious games pique the interest of people and can increase their likelihood of continuing a behavior. In an interactive video game, people interact with NPCs (non-player characters).