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Member of FDA’s expert panel resigns over Alzheimer’s therapy approval:
Following the Food and Drug Administration's polarizing authorization of the Alzheimer's therapy Aduhelm on Monday, a member of an agency advisory committee that recommended against the drug's approval has resigned.
Neurologist Joel Perlmutter of Washington University in St. Louis, a member of the FDA's expert panel for nervous system therapies, told STAT in an email that he had quit the committee on Monday "due to this ruling by the FDA without further discussion with our advisory committee."
The advisory committee, which convened in November, couldn't have been more openly skeptical of the drug, also known as aducanumab. Ten of the 11 panelists found that there was not enough evidence to show it could slow cognitive decline. The 11th voted "uncertain."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 11 2021, @02:55PM
Amyloids are the lowest energy conformation for peptides. Without constant effort to clear them and fold proteins properly they will always form. That is why they are elevated in every diseased tissue known to humankind.
If you are feeling very ill, you cant take out the trash and it accumulates in your house. Same thing.
So, its not really correlatiom != causation. They have causation backwards.
Of course at some point too much trash in the house starts to cause its own problems. But your mom coming over and cleaning the trash wont fix the root problem and may end up hiding how bad the problem is from your neighbors so they get sick too. That is why none of these amyloid removing drugs ever work, it is a huge boondoggle.