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tredenwater2

12/02/18 9:51 PM

#173501 RE: nidan7500 #173498

Great job Nisan connecting all the BP and FDA past failures in testing for a disease that is difficult at best to clinically measure. We are unfortunately (seemingly) having to rewrite the new protocols WITH the FDA/NIH/CDIR as we learn about our new drugs benefits. I personally wouldnt want it any other way. If you think about it, either one without the other would never work as BP has already proven that it isnt able to be trusted.

We have this and IT aint no willy nilly hope and a prayer as some investment saviors say.

IMO

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tradeherpete

12/02/18 9:56 PM

#173502 RE: nidan7500 #173498

Nidan, nice post. FDA made a big deal about all their parameters to stop Alz before it begins but now realize it's folly.

The FDA is asking for help. They are in charge but admit they cannot lead. Macfarlane has turned on the only light in the room and the sooner people realize that they healthier we will all become.

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Steady_T

12/02/18 10:00 PM

#173503 RE: nidan7500 #173498

I guess I have a somewhat different take on the situation.

That the FDA had publicly recognized the difficulty of early stage AD diagnosis and the weakness of measuring tools has less to do with the FDA and much more to do with the state of the science and the difficulties of dealing with early stage CNS disease.

The brain is enclosed in a bone case. It is very delicate. The chemistry is complex.

Its not like liver disease where you can take enzyme measurements and see that the liver is in difficulty and then go in an take a biopsy to see what is going on.

The diseases we are discussing are not like a brain tumor that can been seen of PET scan or MRI. Early stage CNS diseases are occurring at the molecular level on small numbers of neurons. The brain has amazing compensation capabilities that disguise the effects of early degradation of function.

What we are seeing is that brain science is still in the early stages with all of the limitations that go with that state of affairs.

The brain is amazingly complex on the chemical, electrical, molecular levels. There are complex systems of rhythms, hormones, emotions, all interacting, most of which have feedback loops into other systems/parts of the brain.