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Asheville band “Night Walks”  will be performing Tonight!!

at The Getaway River Bar and simulcast live at 10pm on the

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us!  Wednesday, October 19th

Night Walks –  is the solo project of Maddie Shuler (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based out of Asheville, NC. Having primarily acted in the music scene as a hired player for various bands, Night Walks is Maddie’s re-exploration of where it all began – looking inward and truly creating just to create. Their debut single ‘Wait Up’ is available now on all streaming platforms.

@night.walks.band  / nightwalksband.bandcamp.com

@maddieshulermusic

The Getaway River Bar – The Getaway is a laid-back bar with extra chill vibes by the river. With an expanse of outdoor seating and recreations set on the edge of the French Broad River, it welcomes everyone 21+ to loosen up and enjoy a getaway hidden in-between the city center and growing West Asheville.

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TOKYO, JAPAN and CAMBRIDGE, MA – September 27, 2022 – The Eisai and Biogen pharmaceutical companies announced the results of a recent study, in a joint press release on September 27^th, that there was less clinical decline in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease with the administration of a new investigational drug. They completed a phase 3 large late-stage clinical trial of the new drug lecanemab, an anti-amyloid antibody. Amyloid is a protein that accumulates in the brain of people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. At a press briefing the same day of the news release, Ivan Cheung, Eisai’s chairman, said “the first definitively positive large clinical trial to show that you can indeed slow down Alzheimer’s disease at this very early symptomatic stage.”

Other anti-amyloid drugs have been trialed or are in the midst of clinical studies. Biogen’s drug Aduhelm created much noise with a recent controversial study that nevertheless won accelerated FDA approval but was not covered by Medicare due to its high price, severe side-effects and a strong belief that there was little evidence that it slowed cognitive impairment in early Alzheimer’s disease.

The lecanemab study found that cognitive decline was reduced by 27% in subjects that were administered the drug compared to placebo use. 1,800 people with mild Alzheimer’s disease were enrolled. Approximately 25% of the participants were from minority groups, which was comparable to the Medicare population. The drug was administered intravenously, twice a week. Haruo Naito, Eisai’s CEO, feels that this study is important because it proves the amyloid hypothesis, whereby abnormal accumulation of amyloid in the brain is one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s disease and that treatment with antibody-binding therapy slows the progression of disease in early Alzheimer’s patients. The amount of amyloid in the brain was measured by PET scan before and after treatment. The side-effects of treatment with lecanemab included brain swelling or brain bleeding which occurred in more than 21% of the patients. This was significantly more than the 9% occurrence in patients in the placebo group. However, this lecanemab complication occurred less frequently than in patients taking Aduhelm in the the Aduhelm study.

Both pharmaceutical companies have already applied for an accelerated FDA approval to authorize the use of this medicine. A decision is expected in January. Full approval will require further trials.

 

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Contact: Dr. Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, [email protected]

 

Asheville band “Night Walks”  will be performing at The Getaway River Bar and simulcast live at 10pm on the

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us!  Wednesday, October 19th

Night Walks –  is the solo project of Maddie Shuler (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based out of Asheville, NC. Having primarily acted in the music scene as a hired player for various bands, Night Walks is Maddie’s re-exploration of where it all began – looking inward and truly creating just to create. Their debut single ‘Wait Up’ is available now on all streaming platforms.

@night.walks.band  / nightwalksband.bandcamp.com

@maddieshulermusic

The Getaway River Bar – The Getaway is a laid-back bar with extra chill vibes by the river. With an expanse of outdoor seating and recreations set on the edge of the French Broad River, it welcomes everyone 21+ to loosen up and enjoy a getaway hidden in-between the city center and growing West Asheville.

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ATLANTA, GA – July 20, 2022 – The latest COVID-19 wave has struck the United States including Asheville at the same time that our country is suffering from pandemic fatigue. Cases are rising in the South and the West and these numbers are most likely undercounted because many people are testing at home and not reporting the results. Paradoxically, public health restrictions and mandates are no longer in effect; people have resumed many at-risk activities that they avoided during the pandemic like gatherings without masks, eating indoors and flying; and political leaders avoid virus-related discussion. As told to the Washington Post, Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunology at Yale University, said, “I understand the pandemic fatigue, but the virus is not done with us.”

A new omicron variant called BA.5 is the dominant virus of new infections in the U.S. and more transmissible than prior strains. Immunity derived from vaccines and prior infections may not be as effective against the virus as it enters the body so people are susceptible to mild or asymptomatic infection. On the other hand, a specialized white blood cell subtype called T-cells act as a line of defense once the virus has made it into the body by preventing the virus from multiplying and causing severe disease. The number of new hospitalizations has doubled since April, although they are much lower than January’s number with the first omicron surge. The number of counties in the U.S. at high and medium risk outnumber low risk counties. Almost one-third of the U.S. population lives in a county with a high level of Covid spread. About 40% of the U.S. population live in a medium level county. Asheville is at a medium level.

Effective public health measures should remain in our armamentarium and get reactivated whenever there is a COVID-19 surge in spite of our pandemic fatigue and desire to get back to normal. Social-distancing and wearing face masks in public indoor spaces, keeping up-to-date with vaccination, testing and treatment with therapeutics are important to keep COVID-19 under control. Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, says, “Staying up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines provides the best protection against severe outcomes.” The CDC is also pushing boosters because they have been shown to strengthen the immune system against Covid because protective antibodies wane with time, particularly in older and immunocompromised individuals. New vaccines are being developed to be more effective against these new strains of coronavirus.

 

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Contact: Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, [email protected]

Tune in by 9am this Tuesday – June 21st and join DJSmittymon as he welcomes special guest host Teso McDonald (Chilltonic) along with local Asheville singer / songwriters Savannah Hatfield and David Barnard to the AshevilleFM studio for a mix of live performance and talk on this weeks segment of Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions

The group is here to make you aware of Asheville’s first “Lo-Fi” Red Carpet event presented by True-Noble at the Sovereign Kava bar on Biltmore Avenue happening this Saturday, June 25th.. the event includes live music, pop-up gallery & a silent auction and includes the premiere of The Mark Hudson show episode 1 where singer-songwriters Will Franke and David Barnard are interviewed and play 3 original songs each.  That night you can also catch an acoustic set by Savannah Hatfield and hear poetry from local Legends. Don’t miss your chance to hang out with the coolest cats in Asheville.

Find out more about the True-Noble art collective and Asheville’s first Lo-Fi Red Carpet at Sovereign Kava by tuning in to 103.3 Asheville FM..

more info at:

@ davidbarnardmusic @chilltonic @chilltonic.teso @sovereignkava / https://www.ashevillekava.com/

 

Positive Vibes 

Tuesday 8-1o am / AshevilleFM 103.3

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