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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

‘Left wondering’

This rapid response by Shirley Nurock was made in response to a BMJ report that the US drug company Biogen is “walking away from its Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab (Aduhelm).” In … Continue reading ‘Left wondering’

Categories: Alzheimer's disease, British Medical Journal, Dementia, History of medicine, Medical Education, Neuro-imaging, NHS Hospitality Registers, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: Accelerated approval of anti-amyloid drugs, Aduhelm, Aduhelm: Biogen abandons Alzheimer’s drug after controversial approval left it unfunded by Medicare, Aduhelm’s demise will be seen as a victory for advocates of strong drug regulation and a warning to drug manufacturers who rely on marketing to paper over gaps in their data, Alzheimer, Alzheimer's, amyloid, amyloid cascade, amyloid cascade hypothesis, amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, anti-amyloid drugs, anti-amyloid drugs: key questions, Anti-amyloid immunotherapies, Anti-amyloid immunotherapies: low benefit/risk ratio, Anti-amyloid immunotherapies: marginal effects and low benefit/risk ratio, Biogen, BMJ 2024;384:q281, Dementia, Key questions for the evaluation of anti-amyloid immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease, Left wondering, Shirley Nurock, the honest answer is we don't know, worldwide trailblazing headlines of the latest anti-amyloid drug

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

Multiple adverse outcomes

This Research was published in the BMJ on the 17 April 2024 and has been made open access. The paper begins with this summary box: A decade has passed since … Continue reading Multiple adverse outcomes

Categories: British Medical Journal, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 17 April 2024, 2/3rds of current UK prescriptions for antipsychotics in people with dementia are inappropriate, a conflation between marketing and education, antipsychotic prescribing, antipsychotics, Antiquary, are making it more rather than less likely that our elders may receive antipsychotic medication that can result in significant harms, as a direct consequence of mandatory [HIS] screening that elderly and frail patients were frequently being prescribed powerful anti-psychotics such as Haloperidol, “Haloperidol does increase mortality in older people compared with other antipsychotics. That message has been out for a while but has not really got across.”, BMJ 2024;385:e076268, Change Page: “Don’t use antipsychotics routinely to treat agitation and aggression in people with dementia, Concerns about the over-prescribing of antipsychotic drugs in the elderly, Concerns about the over-prescribing of antipsychotic drugs in the elderly led me to consider possible explanations for this behaviour by doctors, Doing damage in delirium the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people, Don't use antipsychotics routinely, Dr Peter Gordon, Haloperidol in Scotland, Haloperidol prescribing in NHS Scotland, Haloperidol prescribing to Scotland's elders, Hole Ousia, Multiple adverse outcomes, Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia:, Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia: population based matched cohort study, Pearl L H Mok, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, putting patients first that is all I have tried to do, rebel antiquary, Recognise and acknowledge the failings of the past and the harm that has been caused to patients, research, Robust post marketing surveillance is essential, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 18, 2024

‘Makes them nettlesome’

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: 'Makes them nettlesome', 2 cultures, Antiquary, Classification, Hole Ousia, Janice Galloway, Muriel Spark, my work is not very easy to classify, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The complete short stories of Muriel Spark, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Categories: Medical humanities, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Breaking new ground, Hole Ousia, our hypocrisy, our hypocrisy is breaking new ground, Peter Gordon, Peter Scott-Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Neon yellow preservation society, The Rebel Antiquary

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