US Government Invests $300M in Alzheimer's Research Database
The US National Institute on Aging (NIA) plans to fund a $300m initiative to build an Alzheimer's research database that will track the health of Americans for decades and draw data from medical records, insurance claims, pharmacies, mobile devices, sensors and various government agencies. The database could help identify healthy Americans who are at risk for Alzheimer's for future drug trials, including efforts to address the chronic underrepresentation of minorities in such trials.
