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‘Miracle’ Alzheimer’s drug WON’T be offered on the NHS after drug watchdog rules benefits are too small to justify the eye-watering ‘£1bn-a-year’ roll-out cost, but it will be available to private patients who can pay £20,000 a year
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‘Miracle’ Alzheimer’s drug WON’T be offered on the NHS after drug watchdog rules benefits are too small to justify the eye-watering ‘£1bn-a-year’ roll-out cost, but it will be available to private patients who can pay £20,000 a year

Brits at risk of Alzheimer’s will miss out on a ‘miracle’ drug to treat the incurable disease on the NHS, health chiefs today announced.  Lecanemab has been proven to slow the progress of the memory-robbing illness in its early stages.  It was today approved by medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).  But draft

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First drug to slow Alzheimer’s too costly for NHS
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First drug to slow Alzheimer’s too costly for NHS

Getty Images The first drug to slow the progression of early stage Alzheimer’s won’t be available on the NHS in England because health assessment body NICE says the benefits “are too small to justify the costs”. Lecanemab has been licensed by the UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, which means it can be prescribed privately. In

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Alzheimer’s wonder drug Lecanemab which can slow down the disease set be approved for use in UK in ‘the biggest breakthrough’ for decades
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Alzheimer’s wonder drug Lecanemab which can slow down the disease set be approved for use in UK in ‘the biggest breakthrough’ for decades

By Meg Byrom Published: 20:26 EDT, 21 August 2024 | Updated: 21:08 EDT, 21 August 2024 A wonder drug that can slow down Alzheimer’s disease is set to be approved for use in Britain. Lecanemab is the first treatment that has been found to curb the condition – slowing cognitive decline by 27 per cent.

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Ashanti and Nelly welcome first baby together and reveal adorable name… days after rapper’s drug arrest
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Ashanti and Nelly welcome first baby together and reveal adorable name… days after rapper’s drug arrest

Ashanti and her husband Nelly have welcomed their first child together! The 43-year-old singer revealed Wednesday on Instagram that she had given birth. A representative for the couple also announced their new son’s name around the same time.  ‘Ashanti and Nelly welcomed their baby boy, Kareem Kenkaide Hayes, on July 18, 2024,’ they said in

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Mike Tyson mistakes news of Molly-Mae Hague’s split with Tommy Fury for a story about brother Tyson Fury having a DRUG PROBLEM in bizarre podcast mix-up
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Mike Tyson mistakes news of Molly-Mae Hague’s split with Tommy Fury for a story about brother Tyson Fury having a DRUG PROBLEM in bizarre podcast mix-up

By Leocciano Callao Published: 17:43 EDT, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 04:12 EDT, 21 August 2024 Boxing legend Mike Tyson bizarrely confused Tommy Fury’s split with Molly-Mae Hague for a story about his brother Tyson having a drug problem. Molly-Mae, who first met Tommy on the hit reality TV show Love Island in 2019,  revealed the bombshell

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Real-life Walter White: Secrets of the sociopath chemist who invented ‘street fentanyl’ are finally revealed in unseen interviews of the ‘serial killer’ drug maker
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Real-life Walter White: Secrets of the sociopath chemist who invented ‘street fentanyl’ are finally revealed in unseen interviews of the ‘serial killer’ drug maker

Federal agents were scrambling as bodies piled up in morgues across New York City in February 1991. A terrifying new drug had hit the city’s streets – a white powder distributed in tiny baggies stamped ‘Tango & Cash.’ It was a sick joke. ‘Tango & Cash’ was a recent buddy cop movie about narcotics detectives,

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Sofía Vergara taps into the mindset of a drug kingpin
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Sofía Vergara taps into the mindset of a drug kingpin

Sofía Vergara first heard of Griselda Blanco — the murderous Colombian crime boss she plays in Netflix’s limited series “Griselda,” a role for which she is now Emmy-nominated — while watching the 2006 documentary “Cocaine Cowboys.” But she didn’t give the villain, known as the Black Widow, much weight. “I grew up in Colombia during

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Miracle Drug That Can Alter DNA Promises Cure for Cancer, Heart Disease and Blindness: Report
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Miracle Drug That Can Alter DNA Promises Cure for Cancer, Heart Disease and Blindness: Report

Last Updated: August 20, 2024, 15:11 IST Gene editing has been under investigation since the 1960s. (Representative Image: AP) The treatment involves altering DNA to eliminate or mitigate the risk of these diseases, a method that has already shown promise in clinical trials. In a groundbreaking development in medical science, a new drug is poised

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MDMA mental health treatment was rejected by drug chiefs after claims of sexual misconduct in trials – as horrifying video emerges showing therapist pinning down and ‘spooning’ a patient
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MDMA mental health treatment was rejected by drug chiefs after claims of sexual misconduct in trials – as horrifying video emerges showing therapist pinning down and ‘spooning’ a patient

MDMA, also known as ecstasy, has been rejected by drug chiefs as a treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — amid accusations of sexual assault levelled at those involved in clinical trials.  Horrific footage published online shows a therapist involved in the trials telling a participant to spread her legs, pinning her down and

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Alzheimer’s drug has potentially fatal side effects
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Alzheimer’s drug has potentially fatal side effects

Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her keys. Infusions of the drug gave her headaches so severe they sent her to bed. A week after the third dose, she was at a restaurant with her best friend when her speech

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