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    • CommentAuthorDickS
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    A lot of "buzz"on the various Alzheimer's News websites on this subject. Check it out for youself. Could this be what we have all been looking for? One can only hope and pray.
    DickS
    • CommentAuthorAdmin
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    Dick,

    Can you give us links to these articles?

    joang
    • CommentAuthorDickS
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    Joan,
    Try this one for starters.
    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93508.php
    DickS
    • CommentAuthorDickS
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    Joan.
    This is another. click on "wire" after the page come up.ttp://www.topix.net/health/alzheimers-disease
    • CommentAuthorkelly5000
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    That's really encouraging! Do you think any doctors here will consider allowing an AD patient to try this? How would one find out?

    Kelly
    • CommentAuthorDickS
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    Kelly,
    I made a copy of the article and I am going to hand carry to my wife's Doctor.
    DickS
    • CommentAuthorJayne
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    I read the article on Alzheimer' Daily News and I too am making a copy and taking it to the neurologist. Thanks DickS

    Jayne
    • CommentAuthorkay kay
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008 edited
     
    DickS,

    Thank you so much for bringing this article to our attention. I typed in Enbrel and Alzheimers Disease on Google and got page after page on this article. The info was released by the Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Science yesterday at around 10 AM. If you go into the web site for the Univ of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS), there are phone numbers listed to call for more info and also e-mail addresses. It looks like to me that a person named Andrea Peel released this article. They list her e-mail address as: Andrea@uams.edu
    They also list an email address for: Leslie W. Taylor: Leslie@uams.edu

    All of this info is on the web site for Univ. of Arkansas. (UAMS)

    Before I take any of this to my DH's doctor, I am going to contact the UAMS and try to find out more about this study and also the time frame of when they think this might be available and if they think it will become available. I showed one of the doctors tonight that was at the NH the article and he had no idea what the study was and has not heard of it. So I think I will try to go to the source of the article and find out more details and see if I cannot get some kind of a time frame, if they even have one.

    Kay Kay
    • CommentAuthorbarbarakay
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     
    I have some Amgen stock. It is down 30% this last year. Was think of selling some, maybe I will hang on to it.
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2008
     
    Even if this drug treatment is successful and I hope it is .... today the Supreme Court made a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs. At the snails pace that the FDA works I find that depressing and fustrating.
    • CommentAuthorpat
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2008
     
    I don't understand. Are all of our LO's considered terminally ill?
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      CommentAuthorHildann
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2008
     
    Isn't this drug approved for use on arthritis? If so, then can't a doctor legally use it for an "off label" application such as AD?
    • CommentAuthorbarbarakay
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2008
     
    Yes, it is approved for arthritis. It is very expensive, so you might have a problem with insurance paying for it. We all have arthritis, right? It is already approved so it might not take as long.
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      CommentAuthorNew Realm*
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2008
     
    Its approved for psoriasis first, then for arthritis.
    Problem for our current AD population is only that it isn't approved for this disease (the AD) or the route it needs to be delivered (intraspinal).