Tag Archives: Alzheimer's disease

Adaptive Trial Design and Combo Drugs Needed in Alzheimer’s

By Ben Comer | Published: October 17, 2012
FDA’s head of neurology products told industry execs at the Prix Galien Forum that the agency is open to alternative clinical trial designs in Alzheimer’s disease, and would like to see more combination products in clinical testing.
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Alzheimer’s Test Offers Early Diagnosis

By George Koroneos | Published: August 11, 2010
Image via Wikipedia A research team in Belgium discovered a new test that has proven successful at identifying patients that are developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report published in the Archives of Neurology on Tuesday. The study took spinal fluid from patients with varying levels of cognitive memory and looked for a specific protein signature or [...]
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NICE Stats Spur Controversy and Back Patting

By Sarah Houlton | Published: September 23, 2009
The UK’s National Health Service has released its first statistics that show how NICE approval has affected medicines uptake in the UK. The NHS Information Centre’s Metrics Working Group looked at 26 medicines that the NICE has said should be reimbursed and how they were prescribed in 2008. It then compared the actual usage with [...]
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