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You mean the one that doesn’t work? The article points out the trial was stopped because the drug did not work. The only thing that changed is that the FDA app
by amluto 4y ago
You mean the one that doesn’t work?
The article points out the trial was stopped because the drug did not work. The only thing that changed is that the FDA approved it anyway. All available evidence still suggests that it doesn’t work.
- seydor 4y agoThe evidence is inconclusive not negative. That trial was halted but later restarted. There is some evidence that it works, and this is better than any other potential treatment which has not shown any evidence. And alzheimers is a fatal disease
- amluto 4y agoAduhelm is also a potentially fatal drug. Even ignoring cost, evidence that the tiny amount of good that it might do exceeds the clearly evident harm it can do is, to put it mildly, lacking. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/biogen-probes-death-aduhelm-user-after-brain-swelling-2021-11-09/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... Keep in mind that, while only one patient was known to have died at the time the article was written, not a whole lot of patients had been treated.