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Rising Leqembi Prescriptions Are Straining Clinic Capacity

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Alzheimer s therapy approval hampered by ramp-up struggles

Thousands of patients are stuck on waiting lists across the state and nationally as hospitals struggle to ramp up infusion centers and monitoring processes for the drug.

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Mass General Brigham unlikely to recommend Alzheimer s drug to patients on blood thinners

Mass General Brigham unlikely to recommend Alzheimer’s drug to patients on blood thinners Jonathan Saltzman © Provided by The Boston Globe More than a third of patients who took Aduhelm in clinical trials had small brain bleeds or an accumulation of fluid detected by MRI. Mass General Brigham is unlikely to offer Biogen’s controversial new Alzheimer’s drug to patients taking blood thinners because of concerns about the risk of bleeding in the brain, according to two doctors helping to develop a policy on the medicine for the state’s largest health care provider. Dr. Teresa Gomez-Isla and Dr. Kirk Daffner, Alzheimer’s specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, respectively, noted that patients on anticoagulant medications were excluded from clinical trials of the recently approved Aduhelm. The Cambridge biotech’s medicine was associated with “microhemorrhages,” or small amounts of bleeding, in the brains o

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