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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Deprenyl
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.181219.21367@spdcc.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:12:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov18.181219.21367
- References: <1992Nov16.235730.2369@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Nov17.181034.13282@spdcc.com> <1992Nov17.202906.2411@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.202906.2411@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- >Selegiline is only one of several new medications of dubious or marginal
- >worth which are likely to be promoted heavily, demanded by patients, and
- >very expensive. Tacrine (sp?) for Alzheimer's is another. This raises
- >some troubling ethical issues as healthcare costs continue to increase,
- >particularly as regards rationing.
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- The evidence for the utility of tacrine in Alzheimer's is substantially
- less than selegiline in Parkinson's (however minor a therapeutic advance
- selegiline is), and tacrine tends to be hepatotoxic. I got the impression
- that the manufacturers of tacrine were going to test, test, test until
- they were able to show even the most minor beneficial result.
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