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Not guilty by reason of insanity, so they feel that hes not a threat to others or himself at this point so hes under no more supervision. >> i read that they said his mental illness is in remission. how do they know that. >> you never know for sure. but this is what they do for a living. saint elizabeths is a mental hospital. they make these sort of judgments. theyre usually right. theyre not always right which we hear about whether theyre wrong. any sort of release like this is some kind of ris...

Patients. so why did this get approved and fast tracked? >> it is really, you know, alzheimers is such a nightmare in this country now. i know from my own family and i think many, many people know what an epidemic this is. and there hasnt been a new drug approved since 2003. so there is very little medical progress. this drug was brought forward by the bio gen company and they said it slowed certain symptoms in the early stages of the disease. the fda has the system where they have advisory comm...

Opposed to this drug say that is all of the more reason not to approve it because youre giving people false hope. >> was there some suggestion and i know you talked to one of the doctors who was on the advisory committee that there was some sort of too cozy relationship between the fda and bio gen. >> this is something i didnt know about until i started working on the story for cnn.com. that is where the story is. that the fda is now largely funded directly from the pharmaceutical companies. not...

That a lot -- there is sort of a free market approach to drug approvals which is maybe it will work, lets let the consumers decide. >> but there are side effects. >> there are side effects and enormous cost. this thing costs at least $56,000 a year. it is unclear whether medicare would cover it. two major hospitals, mt. sinai and cleveland clinic want nothing to do with this. and what i feel terrible about is what are the patients supposed to do. are they supposed to read the sophisticated studi...