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Four Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Volunteers Honored with National Citizen Scientist Awards® for Their Work in Search of a Cure
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® Honorees Include the First Canadian Recipient, Advocate to Veterans, Caregiver, and First Honoree with Parkinson’s Disease Contact: Andi Zucchi – [email protected], 360-927-8767 Washington, DC (February 23, 2022) – The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP) is honoring four clinical trial volunteers with 2021 National Citizen Scientist Awards. This year’s recipients include the […]
Medicare’s Draft Policy For Alzheimer’s Drugs And The Question Of Cost
GAP President John Dwyer was featured in Pink Sheet talking about the cost of Aduhelm affecting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services NCD. US Medicare coverage policy is supposed to be fenced off from considerations about the cost of a prescription drug (or other item or service). But the notion that the cost of […]
MedVadis Research Joins GAP-Net in Fight to Accelerate Alzheimer’s Treatment
MedVadis Research will join the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® Network (GAP-Net) of more than 100 global clinical trial sites Washington, D.C. (February 10, 2022) – The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) announced that MedVadis Research has joined its network of more than 100 global clinical trial sites (GAP-Net), a team of leading academic and private […]
“Punitive, restrictive and unprecedented”: Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation President® John Dwyer Comments on CMS Draft National Coverage Determination
Dwyer calls on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide coverage for the entire class of mAb drugs approved by the Food & Drug Administration and future drugs yet to be approved Washington, D.C. (February 11, 2022) – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed plan to limit coverage of an entire […]
Clinicians and Researchers Urge CMS to Reform Decision to Limit Coverage of Alzheimer’s Treatments
Experts voice concerns over pre-judging promising treatments in the pipeline Today, five top Alzheimer’s clinicians and researchers called into question the preliminary proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to limit coverage FDA-approved monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The CMS proposal would alter the course of […]
Will Medicare Cover Aduhelm? Translating the CMS’s ‘Very Confusing’ Plan
Being Patient answers some common questions regarding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal, and GAP President John Dwyer mentions how this could affect future Alzheimer’s trials and treatments. The CMS proposed a plan that could strip Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm of public Medicare coverage. The result was widespread confusion. We clarify some aspects […]
Here Comes the First Alzheimer’s Treatment in 20 years. But Will Medicare Cover it?
GAP President John Dwyer was quoted in NJ.com about the future of Alzheimer’s treatments if the CMS National Coverage Decision (NCD) proposal is approved. Every day in this country, an estimated 1,000 people progress from moderate Alzheimer’s dementia to the final and most severe stage of the disease. That’s a grim statistic in its own […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® Applauds Neurologists for Speaking Out Against Proposed CMS Plan to Restrict Coverage to Alzheimer’s Patients
New survey finds that 83% of neurologists believe that the safety and efficacy of an entire class of drugs should not be determined by the results of one medication. Washington, D.C. (February 2, 2022) – John Dwyer, President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP), a person-centric non-profit organization committed to accelerating the discovery of […]
STATEMENT: Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® Applauds Biogen for 18 Percent Diversity Recruitment Goal for Participants in Aduhelm Confirmatory Trial
Washington, D.C. (January 27, 2021) – John Dwyer, President of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP), a person-centric non-profit organization committed to accelerating the discovery of therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, applauded the announcement today by Biogen Inc. that it would ensure that at least 18 percent of participants in its FDA mandated study will […]
‘Not a tolerable situation’: Patient Groups Take Aim at CMS Over Alzheimer’s Coverage Decision
GAP President John Dwyer was quoted in Politico talking about the difficulty of having a diverse population pool in Alzheimer’s clinical trial, and how unlike that is to achieve if the CMS proposal is approved. Drugmakers and patient advocacy groups are waging a campaign to cast Medicare officials as villains after the program limited coverage […]