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In approving the first new Alzheimer's drug in nearly 20 years, the US Food and Drug Administration is taking its biggest risk yet with a strategy that allows new therapies onto the market without strong evidence that they work, regulatory and scientific experts say.
By Deena Beasley and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - In approving the first new Alzheimer's drug in nearly 20 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...
David Lewis June 8, 2021Updated: June 9, 2021, 9:05 am Cloris Leachman and Thomas Duplessie in “Jump, Darling.” Photo: Frameline Frameline, San Francisco’s iconic LGBTQ film festival, will have its longest run in history, from Thursday, June 10, through June 27. The package includes drive-in showings, streaming across the country, indoor screenings and even outdoor movie nights at Oracle Park. Before the program was put together, organizers worried that the pandemic would make it difficult to come up with a strong lineup. But the opposite happened: There weren’t enough sl...
In Brief Maryland’s Legislature recently considered, but did not have time to pass, SB0737 the Comprehensive Conservation Finance Act after it was developed collaboratively with both conservation nonprofit and private capital groups. The bill tweaks a number of regulations concerning conservation programs to crowd-in private capital for a greater quantity and diversity of conservation projects for the Chesapeake Bay. More broadly, it spurs discussion about incentives for land aggregation vehicles and capacity building in the conservation finance ecosystem. (Courtesy the Conservation Fund.)...