{"id":18455,"date":"2021-07-12T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18455"},"modified":"2021-07-12T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:47:37","slug":"why-we-may-never-know-whether-the-56000-a-year-alzheimers-drug-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18455","title":{"rendered":"Why We May Never Know Whether the $56,000-a-Year Alzheimer\u2019s Drug Actually Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease was widely celebrated, but it also touched off alarms. There were worries in the scientific community about the drug\u2019s mixed results in studies \u2014 the FDA\u2019s own expert advisory panel was nearly unanimous in opposing its approval. And the annual $56,000 price tag of the infusion drug, Aduhelm, was decried for potentially adding costs in the tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/commentary-aduhelm-alzheimers-drug-effectiveness\/\">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 Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s approval in June of a drug purporting to<\/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-18455","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\/18455","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=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}