{"id":18452,"date":"2021-07-09T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18452"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:17:41","slug":"doctors-weigh-pros-and-cons-of-prescribing-hot-button-alzheimers-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18452","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Weigh Pros and Cons of Prescribing Hot-Button Alzheimer\u2019s Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>As physicians and health policy experts debate the merits of Aduhelm, the first new drug for Alzheimer\u2019s disease approved in 18 years, patients want to know: \u201cWill this medication help me \u2014 and how much?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctors explaining the pros and cons of Aduhelm won\u2019t have a definitive answer. \u201cOn an individual basis, it will be absolutely impossible to predict,\u201d said Dr. Allan Levey, director of the Goizueta Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research Center at Emory University.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/doctors-weigh-pros-and-cons-of-prescribing-hot-button-alzheimers-drug\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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 Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) As physicians and health policy experts debate the merits of Aduhelm, the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452","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=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}