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FDA’s Accelerated Approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm for Alzheimer’s: A Sign of Applying the Emergency Use Standard Beyond COVID?

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Subpart H) pathway in 2014, then issued it as final guidance in January 2019. Later, in 1993, in private practice Sasinowski advocated for the first use of Accelerated Approval outside of AIDS and cancer, when Dr. Janet Woodcock approved Betaseron as the first drug for multiple sclerosis. What do we mean?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. They’re really not. Emmy: Generally not.

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