AAN: American Academy of Neurology
American Academy of Neurology (AAN): Annual Meeting
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VIDEOS: High-priced drugs, out-of-pocket costs raise challenges for neurologists
LOS ANGELES – Members of the AAN Neurology Drug Pricing Task Force spoke about the issues that arise in getting patients access to high-cost drugs...
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Real-world data so far support pimavanserin trial results
LOS ANGELES – Two studies report on clinicians’ experiences with 105 patients.
Guidelines
VIDEO: AAN MS guidelines aim to help clinicians weigh expanding drug choices
LOS ANGELES – A “dramatically different” landscape of treatment options allows better tailoring to patients, authors say.
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Eating Fish May Be Associated With a Reduced Risk of MS
LOS ANGELES—Eating fish at least once per week or eating fish one to three times per month, in addition to taking daily fish oil...
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Long-Term Perampanel Treatment Is Safe and Effective for Adolescents
LOS ANGELES—Treatment for as long as four years with adjunctive perampanel is safe and effective for adolescents with secondarily...
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VIDEO: Encouraging results reported for novel Huntington’s disease therapy
LOS ANGELES – In a short, 46-patient trial, the antisense oligonucleotide IONIS-HTTRx safely reduced CSF concentrations of the huntingtin protein...
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VIDEO: Ubrogepant reduced pain, related symptoms of a migraine attack
Significantly more patients treated with the CGRP blocker saw pain relief within 2 hours of taking the oral medication, compared with placebo.
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Multiple sclerosis “top picks” from AAN 2018
Dr. Jonathan L. Carter from the Mayo Clinic Arizona shares his personal list of best MS abstracts at AAN 2018.
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Erenumab found beneficial to migraine patients with unsuccessful preventive treatment history
A phase 3b trial shows the investigational monoclonal antibody was effective out to 3 months so far.
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Top AAN picks from Clinical Neurology News’ medical editor
Top picks include presentations on SMA, targeting and screening for tau in Alzheimer’s, and the BigBrain High Resolution 3D Digital Human Brain...
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Tear proteins seen as Parkinson’s biomarker
The test centers on elevated levels of oligomeric alpha-synuclein.
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Higher ADHD risk seen in children with migraine
BOSTON – Link with attention problem seen with migraine, but not tension-type headaches.
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Gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy shows promise in early study
BOSTON – Early data show remarkable results for a gene therapy with few adverse events, in a phase I study.
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TB meningitis cases in U.S. are fewer but more complicated
BOSTON – Seizures and strokes have risen in hospitalized TB meningitis patients.
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App allows monitoring of drug effects in Parkinson’s
BOSTON – Patients can test physical, mental skills every few hours.