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CMS coverage policies restrict patient access to important treatment options for Alzheimer’s disease

By Gabby Migliara  |    September 1, 2022
There’s been a lot of discussion this year about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national coverage determination (NCD) for new Alzheimer’s treatments finalized earlier this year in...   Read More

CMS coverage decision restricts access to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

By Nicole Longo  |    June 22, 2022
This year’s Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month offers an important opportunity to remember the severe toll that Alzheimer’s takes on patients and family caregivers. Unfortunately, this year also...   Read More

PhRMA submits comments urging CMS to withdraw coverage proposal

By Lauren Neves  |    February 11, 2022
In comments submitted this week, PhRMA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw its proposed national coverage determination (NCD) for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for the...   Read More

New report shows more than 260 medicines in development to fight neurodegenerative diseases

By Andrew Powaleny  |    October 12, 2021
With neurodegenerative diseases affecting millions of individuals in the United States, now is an important time to spotlight the increasing impact these diseases have on our country’s aging...   Read More

How research evolves and brings new hope to patients

By Stephen J. Ubl  |    June 11, 2021
Before medicines can be made available to patients, they often begin as ideas that are based on newly discovered molecules and cells, strange phenomena or little-understood processes in the body. The...   Read More

Continued R&D into Alzheimer’s disease means hope for patients, families and caregivers

By Richard Moscicki, M.D.  |    June 4, 2021
More than 6 million Americans, most of them age 65 or older, live with Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating degenerative brain disease and the most common form of dementia. After heart disease and...   Read More

Guest Post: Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by taking action on health equity

By Guest Contributor  |    October 12, 2020
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. Today, we are pleased to welcome...   Read More

Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could result in 56 fewer new medicines over 10 years

By Juliet Johnson  |    November 21, 2019
A new analysis from economic consulting firm Vital Transformation shows that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing plan, H.R.3, could result in at least 56 fewer innovative medicines for patients over...   Read More

New report details the setbacks and challenges to Alzheimer’s research

By Gretta Stone  |    September 12, 2018
Illustrating the challenges of developing medicines to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a new analysis found that between 1998 and 2017, there were 146 unsuccessful medicines in clinical trials for...   Read More

Disrupting Alzheimer's

By Andrew Powaleny  |    September 10, 2018
We are living in a new era of medicine, where treatments and even cures once believed to be impossible are today a reality. But this immense progress does not apply universally and there have been...   Read More

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