UPDATE: 3 March 2024, 8:22 P.M. ET. In February 2024, Biogen took Aduhelm off the market, citing financial concerns. Although the drug did receive…
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Following the approval of the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm — and the litany of controversy surrounding it — one question that’s top of mind for…
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In the 1980s, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student of English, developing her expertise in language and literature, her father Jerry, now deceased,…