President Biden still hasn’t appointed a permanent FDA commissioner. That has big implications for upcoming drug approvals.

Fortune

25 May 2021 - Within the next few weeks, the FDA is set to make an extraordinary decision: whether or not to grant approval for Biogen's experimental and highly controversial Alzheimer's drug aducanumab. 

This would be the first treatment, ever, to be approved to treat the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease rather than just its symptoms. 

That could spell the difference between, say, controlling mental or physical outbursts related to Alzheimer's versus actually declining the rate of mental decline associated with the brain-eating disease.

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