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‘Little Hollywood’ Gives Alzheimer’s a Close-up
GAP-Net sites Baylor College of Medicine Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center and the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health at the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas are collaborating on a film project to bring awareness of the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in the Latino community. Assistant director Aaron Thomas slams the clapperboard Saturday to […]
Alzheimer’s, Dementia Rate High in South Texas
GAP-Net site El Faro Health & Therapeutics was featured in the Houston Chronicle. The disease took Noemi Fleming’s elderly mother slowly, the first hints in repeated anecdotes or phrases. Then misplaced keys and bills. Then, Fleming caught her mother walking outside in the middle of the night, looking for the newspaper. “Mama, it’s 1 o’clock […]
STATEMENT: THE GLOBAL ALZHEIMER’S PLATFORM FOUNDATION® PRESIDENT JOHN DWYER CONDEMNS THE CMS DECISION TO LIMIT A CLASS OF ALZHEIMER’S DRUGS AS “RATIONING CARE”
Washington, D.C. (April 7, 2022) – “Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final coverage ruling for an entire class of Alzheimer’s drugs. At its core, this National Coverage Decision (NCD) is not very different here from a flat-out denial of coverage. CMS continues to treat all Alzheimer’s patients differently than any other class […]
Biden Administration and Congress Take a Major Step to Accelerate Research to Treat and Cure Serious Illnesses
Modeled after DARPA, ARPA-H will incentivize innovative approaches to address some of America’s deadliest diseases Washington, D.C. (March 30, 2022) – A group of leading scientists and patient advocates today applauded the Biden Administration and Congress for making the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) a reality. This new agency is designed to empower […]
Medicare Alzheimer’s Drug Study Criteria Would Be Out Of Reach In Many States
GAP President John Dwyer was quoted in Pink Sheet in regard to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed National Coverage Decision. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed eligibility criteria for the research sites capable of conducting clinical trials for monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease could be met in just 28 […]
‘Rally For Access’ Video
GAP President John Dwyer, on behalf of the organization, joined other Alzheimer’s advocates in Washington D.C. for the ‘Rally for Access’ on March 15, 2022. The ‘Rally for Access’ gathered these organizations to remind the public what is at stake if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Coverage Determination (NCD) is accepted. […]
THE GLOBAL ALZHEIMER’S PLATFORM FOUNDATION® ECHOES CONCERNS RAISED BY SENATORS WARNER AND MARKEY AND COLLEAGUES
CMS FAILS TO FAIRLY EVALUATE ALZHEIMER’S TREATMENTS Washington, D.C. (March 23, 2022) — Adding to the growing number of advocates calling on the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider an unprecedented National Coverage Determination (NCD) that discriminates against 6 million people with Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and […]
Alzheimer’s group amps public pressure with ad campaign as Medicare decision looms
A new seven-figure ad campaign takes aim – again – at Medicare’s pending coverage decision on Alzheimer’s disease anti-amyloid drugs. UsAgainstAlzheimer’s launched the $1 million-plus national effort Sunday, including a TV ad that ran across the the day’s morning talk news shows. The group is the latest to push back on the Centers for Medicare […]
Thanks to innovative research being done locally at Charter Research, volunteering for an Alzheimer’s clinical trial could improve your health and make a huge impact on the Alzheimer’s community and the future of this insidious disease
GAP-Net Site Charter Research’s Jeff Pohlig, CEO, wrote an Op-Ed about how volunteering can improve your health and your community. Unfortunately, over 90% of research studies are delayed because of slow recruitment. These delays may be affecting the treatment of your neighbor, loved one, co-worker or friend. Floridians facing Alzheimer’s need clinical trial volunteers to […]
STATEMENT BY JOHN DWYER, PRESIDENT OF THE GLOBAL ALZHEIMER’S PLATFORM FOUNDATION® ON PRESIDENT BIDEN’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
Washington, D.C. (March 1, 2022) – “He did it again. From his victory speech in November 2020 and then again in his initial address to the nation in 2021, and then tonight in his most major address yet unveiling his ‘Unity Agenda,’ President Biden put Alzheimer’s disease near the top of the U.S. national public […]