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STAT+: The FDA has approved a new Alzheimer’s drug, but wide access may depend on CMS easing restrictions

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Such decisions are based on myriad factors, starting with the average $26,500 price tag. But there are other considerations, including the quality of the clinical trial data, side effect concerns, the patient population for which the medicine is approved, and budgetary constraints.

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

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Since that time, Biogen’s MS drugs have faced intense competition as MS patients continue to vent on social media that the Biogen drug has nasty side effects. Biogen concluded the key to effectiveness was giving patients a high-enough dose, but critics howled, with one calling the analysis “a post hoc dumpster dive operation.”

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Pharma running online ads on vaccine misinformation sites

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NewsGuard found that 67% of the COVID misinformation sites had Google advertising tags and 30% had tags from The Trade Desk. Until effective tracking tools and stricter regulations on online ad publishing are put in place, ad fraud will remain a significant problem for advertisers and media buyers. . How much is enough?

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Biogen, Eisai Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab fast tracked by FDA

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The anti-amyloid drug, which also claimed a breakthrough tag from the FDA in July, is being developed for the treatment of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The $56,000-a-year price tag for the drug, which has now been cut in half in the US, also hasn’t helped the drugmakers make a case for Aduhelm with US payers.

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Scientists and medics turn to TikTok to reassure public on vaccine safety

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Her videos cover a host of topics from the science behind the immune system, side effects caused by the shots and vaccine hesitancy and the clinical and regulatory path to approval. If we instead acknowledge that there are risks just like anything else in medicine and life, it’s a more effective message.”. Dr Austin Chiang.

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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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But along with strong efficacy come some considerable risks and costs: cytokine release syndrome (CRS), where a patient’s immune system becomes dangerously over-stimulated, and neurotoxicity are potential side effects that need to be managed. Side effects and cost implications.

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Free access to Zolgensma curbed, says Novartis

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” Zolgensma is one of the most expensive therapies available, with a price tag of around $2.1 million in the US and just under €2 million in Europe, which the company says is justified by its dramatic benefits when given as a one-shot therapy to patients with SMA.