Alzheimer’s and work
Wendy Mitchell, in her wonderful book Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir, tells of her frustration when asking her supervisors in the UK National Health Service for accommodation for her early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Wendy...
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Medicare is doing the right thing to limit payment for Aduhelm to participants in approved clinical trials
Ten days ago, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare coverage for Aduhelm (aducanumab) would apply only to patients participating in approved clinical trials. Recall that on June...
New healthy aging goal added to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease
The National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011. The act created the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease (and related dementias). The plan has been updated annually,...
Does cataract surgery really decrease the risk of dementia?
Our vision appears to have a complicated relationship to dementia. Posterior cortical atrophy is a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease in which the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles first form in the back of...
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