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Dementia Research, Economics and Public Policy
We Ranked Every Dementia Treatment by What It’s Actually Worth. Here’s Who Won
After running a full economic evaluation on five widely used medications and comparing them against seven non-drug interventions, Robert J.
The Cheapest Pill in Your Medicine Cabinet Might Be the Best Dementia Treatment Around
Three medications into Robert J. Brent’s economic analysis of dementia treatments, the pattern wasn’t looking good. FDA-approved Alzheimer’s drugs: net
The Medication the FDA Already Warned Against, and Nursing Homes Still Use
Of every medication examined in Robert J. Brent’s new economic analysis of dementia treatments, one stands out as the most
Your Blood Pressure Pills Might Be Helping Your Brain and Hurting Your Heart at the Same Time
Beta-blockers are about as ordinary as medications get. Tens of millions of people take them for high blood pressure, and
The Dementia Drugs Millions Take and the Data That Says They’re Backfiring
Here’s an uncomfortable thought experiment. Imagine a medication that’s FDA-approved, prescribed to millions of people with dementia, and has been
The Math Teacher Test: Why Your Brain Scan Can’t Tell You If You Have Dementia
Picture a high school math teacher on a free period. She’s been forgetting things lately, so she slips out to