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Another setback for bio agents new alzheimer's drug just a week after the fda

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narrow the prescribing instructions for the drug three large hospital say that they

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will not administer it the cleveland clinic mount sinai health system in new

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york and providence in renton washington say that they will not carry the drug

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in their pharmacies or provided to patients cleveland clinics and doctors

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can still prescribe it but it will have to be administered an outside facility a spokeswoman said

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that the decision follows a review of available scientific evidence of its safety and efficacy

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hospitals decisions come as some...health and she some health insurers are also restricting

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access to this therapy a spokeswoman for blue cross blue shield of north carolina cited the

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same safety and efficacy concerns and its decision not to cover the drug and that's going to be the bigger

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question is an expensive drug if you have hospital saying that they wanted ministry you

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can bet that you will have insurance companies jumping on...saying, yeah,

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it's the safety and efficacy and that's why we're not going along depressing because it we want, you know,

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hope springs eternal with something that with an aging population

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it's so urgent that we try to find something that actually works which

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...been almost twenty years since there's been another drug treatments

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been approved and I think this is one of those.

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From the name of it ends in math I think it's a monoclonal antibody that attacks

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the plaque right, yeah,...that is...don't know whether the plaque as a result of the alzheimer's...the

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cause of the...results and that was not prove definitively the efficacy now

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that I can imagine if you had a family member a loved...but then again it's, you know,

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you wouldn't

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want to be have false hopes that they rushed through the approval process

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...people if there's such an urgent need for it it's really not that...been proven really that it's that

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verifications no but I like to see somebody like the cleveland clinic say they're not going to do

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it that to me raises some concerns about the safety because it you wouldn't think they do that just because

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the efficacy of both the cleveland clinic wasn't it was...was

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...veering mount sign an...are well-known hospital decorate the

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internet and everything's reward today and if there are.

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That's the first I'll.

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...I was glad we're seeing fda move ahead with it.

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...somebody who's also looking for other cures for other people I know

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...I'm glad to see a chance taken but and,

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I hope it doesn't push back too hard on the fda and then you get the fda we constantly

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criticized for holding housing prime as well try it, you know,

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these people are in need if you don't have...I was

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that again if one person dies and gene therapy or something like that so there in a tough

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...got...we talked about this too.