{"id":428354,"date":"2026-05-02T07:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:57:10","slug":"treatment-to-slow-alzheimers-approved-but-e60000-yearly-price-not-covered-by-hse-or-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428354\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment to slow Alzheimer\u2019s approved, but \u20ac60,000 yearly price not covered by HSE or insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018First in its class\u2019 medication can help patients stay in the early stages of the disease for longer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New drug Lecanemab can slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tyImages_2161269653.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">New drug Lecanemab can slow the progress of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A long-awaited treatment seen as a significant step in the fight against Alzheimer\u2019s disease has finally been approved in Ireland, but it costs \u20ac60,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lecanemab promises to slow down the progress of Alzheimer\u2019s at the early stages in suitable patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018First in its class\u2019 medication can help patients stay in the early stages of the disease for longer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4593,103,2120,61,60],"class_list":["post-428354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}