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FDA Loosens Alzheimer's Drug Approval Process

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is planning to adopt new standards for approving medications to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) that could make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to get promising drugs to the steadily increasing number of people with the devastating illness. In an announcement in yesterday's online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Nicholas Kozauer, M.D., and Russell Katz, M.D., of the Division of Neurology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research pointed out that the focus of AD drug development has shifted...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Thursday, 14 March