{"id":91659,"date":"2019-06-05T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-but-kept-it-secret"},"modified":"2019-06-05T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:22:29","slug":"pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-but-kept-it-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-but-kept-it-secret","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer\u2019s but kept it secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-but-kept-it-secret.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t it tell the world? Drug companies frequently have been pilloried for not fully disclosing negative side effects of their drugs. What happens when the opposite is the case?<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company\u2019s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease by 64 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The results were from an analysis of hundreds of thousands of insurance claims. Verifying that the drug would actually have that effect in people would require a costly clinical trial \u2014 and after several years of internal discussion, Pfizer opted against further investigation and chose not to make the data public, the company confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/zz\/news\/20190604\/pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-but-kept-it-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn\u2019t it tell the world? Drug companies frequently have been pilloried for not fully disclosing negative side effects of their drugs. What happens when the opposite is the case? A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company\u2019s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}