A February 7, 2012 Kaiser Health News article reported on the Obama administration’s boost in Alzheimer’s funding. According to the article, while the bulk of the administration’s investment will go toward research, $26 million — also being requested in the FY 2013 budget — would support care and outreach to people with the disease and […]
Bill Spurs Research and Drug Development into Most Deadly, Costly Diseases Like Alzheimer’s WASHINGTON – On Thursday, February 2, 2012, U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), unveiled the Spending Reductions through Innovations in Therapies (SPRINT) Act, bipartisan legislation which would spur innovation […]
Video courtesy of Alzheimer’s Foundation of America LEAD congratulates Hannah Schwartz, 18, of Clarksville, TN, the winner of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s (AFA) 2012 Teens Video Competition. Hannah has witnessed what she calls the kind of love that can only be expressed by a caregiver to a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, and she […]
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 […]
The Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Biomarker Expert Working Group just published a new paper in Neurobiology of Aging. They recommend that certain AD biomarkers be used for clinical assessments, enrolling study participants, and as an outcome in AD clinical trials. Biomarkers, Alzheimer’s, and clinical trials can help find AD faster and can lead to more effective […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Framework for a Transformative National Plan to Defeat Alzheimer’s Disease The time is now for America to rally the nation behind the challenging but achievable goal of preventing or controlling the disabling symptoms of this disease by 2020 by accelerating development of preventative treatments, focusing federal investments on innovative, outcomes-oriented research, and facilitating high […]