Alzheimer Disease Perspective

• Alzheimer's Disease: Hope on the Horizon: The Winding Road to Approval   Experts at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, discuss the bumpy road to the FDA's accelerated approval of aducanumab.
  Medscape TV, May 23, 2022
• Medicare Is Right Not to Pay for Costly Alzheimer's Drug: Ethicist   Prof Art Caplan discusses Medicare's decision on paying for the use of the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 11, 2022
• Five New Neurology Studies: Possible Breakthroughs, Some Failures   Dr Christoph Diener on promising early results in muscular dystrophy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and discouraging ones for aducanumab.
  Medscape Neurology, May 09, 2022
• Hope, Hype, and the Problem With New Drug Development Desperation for neurologic disorders is leading us away from evidence-based practices.
  Medscape Neurology, May 06, 2022
• Review of New Drugs That May Be Used During Pregnancy Typically, for new drugs, no published reports describe their use in pregnant women.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, April 27, 2022
• Alzheimer's Disease: Hope on the Horizon: Antibody Therapies: Hopes and Doubts   Neurologists discuss how mixed results from clinical trials of beta-amyloid–targeting antibodies are shaping insights into the Alzheimer's disease process.
  Medscape TV, April 14, 2022
• Change Makers: Alexander Hardy on the Future of Health   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Alexander Hardy, Chief Executive Officer, Genentech, about the impact COVID-19 has had on pharmaceutical partnerships, clinical trials, disparities, and misinformation, all of which he sees as silver linings of the pandemic.
  Medscape, February 04, 2022
• Moving Ahead With Positive Health Lessons and Innovative Predictions We can't let COVID force us backward in personalizing care. Leveraging new tools that forge new connections and insights will propel us past this new challenge.
  January 25, 2022
• 2021's Top Neurology Studies   Dr Christoph Diener highlights the data from this past year that you need to know going into 2022.
  Medscape Neurology, January 07, 2022
• Can a Thyroid Hormone Medication Lift Depression and Dementia? Is the commonly prescribed levothyroxine a "poor man's option" for treating cognitive decline and low mood?
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, December 16, 2021
• Multivitamins Slow Cognitive Aging in Older Adults   A simple, widely available intervention could reduce cognitive aging by almost 2 years, if further studies confirm the findings from COSMOS-Mind.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, December 10, 2021
• Last Month in Neurology Research: Some Ups, Some Downs   Dr Christoph Diener highlights five recently published studies, most of which failed to show a benefit to various interventions.
  Medscape Neurology, December 01, 2021
• How Technology Can Help Doctors Diagnose Alzheimer's Earlier Early warning signs of dementia can be as minor as forgetting an ingredient in a familiar recipe. New tools can help doctors detect these signals earlier and provide better care.
  November 29, 2021
• I Forget Names All the Time: Could This Be Alzheimer's Disease? An experienced nurse (and aging baby boomer) discusses the rising impact of Alzheimer's disease on society and healthcare.
  Medscape Blogs, November 24, 2021
• CTAD 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from CTAD 2021.
  Medscape Psychiatry, November 15, 2021
• How Does Your Garden Grow? The Value of Horticultural Therapy Thanks to the wide-reaching practices of horticultural therapy, the American garden is once again getting the attention it deserves, helping both patient and doctor.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, October 19, 2021
• WCN 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from WCN 2021
  Medscape Neurology, October 08, 2021
• Alzheimer's Disease: Hope on the Horizon: Biomarkers: New Tools for Discovery   Neurologists discuss insights into Alzheimer's pathology gained from new imaging biomarkers, and the role of biomarkers in drug development for this disease.
  Medscape TV, September 28, 2021
• Google's Head of AI Talks About the Future of the EHR   Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google, talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about using technology to improve people's lives. And, he says, a lot of this started with cat videos.
  Medscape, August 20, 2021
• To Keep Your Brain Young, Look to Our Past The lifestyle of our Palaeolithic ancestors reflects how we preserve cognition today.
  Medscape Neurology, August 10, 2021