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How worried should we be if NHS dementia drugs are no longer available?

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How worried should we be if NHS dementia drugs are no longer available? | Times2 | The Times

The death of Terry Jones last week, five years after he was diagnosed with one of the rarer forms of dementia, has again thrust the condition to the fore in the public’s mind. However, it’s events farther afield that have got doctors talking. The French government has announced that it will no longer fund the only licensed medicines for dementia. And there are rumours that Belgium is considering following suit.

The decision is the equivalent of saying that dementia drugs will no longer be available on the NHS, and it flies in the face of the latest guidance from Nice, which if anything encourages doctors here to prescribe them more widely. So what was behind the French move?
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So how long before Trump drops dementia drugs from Medicare, just to keep up with the crowd? BTW, dementia is when you start forgetting how to brush your teeth or wipe you a**.
 
WARNING - don't waste your time. There is a paywall. To try to force to you pay them, they don't even MENTION what the drug is. There is just a panic baiting paragraph that says nothing.

Your apparent attempt to force us to sign up to some obscure UK publication.

There is NOTHING to indicate this isn't because isn't because it has been learned it is ineffectual and/or has worst side effects than any benefits. But WOW, drug companies love people like you that believe anything and everything the say for the highest profits probably than any other legal company and likely making vastly more money than Columbian drug lords.
 
JacksinPA said:
How worried should we be if NHS dementia drugs are no longer available? | Times2 | The Times

The death of Terry Jones last week, five years after he was diagnosed with one of the rarer forms of dementia, has again thrust the condition to the fore in the public’s mind. However, it’s events farther afield that have got doctors talking. The French government has announced that it will no longer fund the only licensed medicines for dementia. And there are rumours that Belgium is considering following suit.

The decision is the equivalent of saying that dementia drugs will no longer be available on the NHS, and it flies in the face of the latest guidance from Nice, which if anything encourages doctors here to prescribe them more widely. So what was behind the French move?
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So how long before Trump drops dementia drugs from Medicare, just to keep up with the crowd? BTW, dementia is when you start forgetting how to brush your teeth or wipe you a**.
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Sounds like a pretty good reason to keep government out of healthcare.
 
joko104 said:
WARNING - don't waste your time. There is a paywall. To try to force to you pay them, they don't even MENTION what the drug is. There is just a panic baiting paragraph that says nothing.

Your apparent attempt to force us to sign up to some obscure UK publication.

There is NOTHING to indicate this isn't because isn't because it has been learned it is ineffectual and/or has worst side effects than any benefits. But WOW, drug companies love people like you that believe anything and everything the say for the highest profits probably than any other legal company and likely making vastly more money than Columbian drug lords.
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They found them to ne of limited benefit. Canada, however, has found that one of them doubles the risk of hospitalization Warning: Commonly Used Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease Doubles Risk of Hospitalization
 
The risk is mathematically double that of the two other widely prescribed anticholinesterase inhibitors, but no more than for statins, which also carry this slight risk.
It works out at one extra patient in 300 prescriptions.
As for the NHS dropping them, there's no forseeable prospect of that happening.
 
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