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Research into Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases would win a boost under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Barbara Mikulski. The bill is designed to spark innovative research by allocating money to find cures for these ailments. Mikulski, D-Md., was joined at the Capitol Hill announcement by USAgainstAlzheimer's founder George Vradenburg, as well as the bill's co-sponsors: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., are also co-sponsors, but did not attend the news conference.

The bill, titled Spending Reductions through Innovations in Therapies or SPRINT, targets the deadliest diseases, which also happen to be the costliest to taxpayers. Specifically, it would devote $50 million toward moving more drugs toward Food and Drug Administration review. It would also award contracts and grants to drug companies for promising Alzheimer's therapies.

Mikulski said the bill would shorten the time between initial drug discovery and FDA approval to speed these treatments to ailing patients, a goal that would require swift cooperation between drug companies and federal agencies, she said. "We need partnership and we need it now," Mikulski said. "This is a new way where government ... lays the groundwork."

The bill also details a national Alzheimer's plan with the goal of treating all cases by 2025 or earlier. Continue to read: hometownannapolis.com

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