{"id":18320,"date":"2021-06-14T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18320"},"modified":"2021-06-14T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:38:01","slug":"im-just-winging-it-faced-with-confusing-data-on-the-new-alzheimers-drug-doctors-scramble-to-advise-their-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18320","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m just winging it\u2019: Faced with confusing data on the new Alzheimer\u2019s drug, doctors scramble to advise their patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Cooney for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>Their phones are ringing off the hook and their email inboxes are filling up with questions without answers.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors who care for patients diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014 or people worried that they might be \u2014 are feeling the brunt of last week\u2019s decision by the Food and Drug Administration to grant conditional approval to the first new Alzheimer\u2019s drug in 18 years. That approval is broad, making no distinction between the mild, moderate, and advanced stages of the memory-robbing disease and setting no requirements for its diagnosis. Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/14\/faced-with-confusing-data-on-alzheimers-drug-doctors-scramble\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Cooney for STAT) Their phones are ringing off the hook and their email inboxes are filling up with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-fda","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}