Consumer advocates are blasting the FDA for the process it has used to renegotiate the terms of the drug approval process following news that a deal has been reached with industry on proposed changes to the process. The FDA had been holding two sets of meetings in working out an agreement on the Prescription Drug […]
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Release of Draft Framework for the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease
As we committed at the December LEAD meeting, we are circulating the attached draft Framework for the National Alzheimer’s Plan just released by HHS. This is not the draft plan itself, whose release has been delayed by HHS until after the release of the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget in early February. This draft Framework […]
America can’t afford to ignore Alzheimer’s
A January 6, 2012 The Des Moines Register op-ed by George Vradenburg and Dr. Andrea McGuire, chairwoman of the board of advisors of the University of Iowa College of Public Health, advocated for increased investment in Alzheimer’s research. According to the article, “One in eight Iowans age 65 and older has it. It is America’s […]