Diagnostics that can identify biomarkers of disease in the blood are helping speed drug trials for intractable conditions like Alzheimer's.Why it matters: Blood biomarker diagnostics can help pharmaceutical companies identify the right patients to enroll in drug trials for difficult-to-diagnose neurological conditions without resorting to more expensive and invasive methods like brain scans or spinal taps.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.Driving the news: The FDA is due to make a decision by June 7 on Biogen's aducanumab drug, which if approved would be the first drug ever authorized to slow the course of a form of dementia found in some 6 million Americans.The decision will be fraught — an advisory panel to the FDA declined to endorse the drug in November, saying there was not enough evidence of its effectiveness.Between the lines: Potential Alzheimer's drugs have continually disappointed in trials, in part because identi
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MS for North Wales Speaking during the Debate in the Welsh Parliament on the Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2021-22, I said “After more than two decades of Labour Budgets since devolution, Wales still has the lowest wage and employment levels, and highest proportion of low-paid jobs in Britain, and the lowest prosperity levels and long-term pay growth, and highest poverty rate, of all UK Nations. We needed a Budget to fix the foundations and build a more secure and prosperous economy for the future. Instead, what we got was a Budget that papered over the cracks rather than rebuilding the foundations, a Budget that shows this Welsh Government do not understand what went wrong in the last two decades or what is needed in the next”.
Update, 3 p.m.: DC Health notified the public this afternoon that a “technical review failure” meant newly eligible residents were unable to register for the COVID-19 vaccine. “As the IT team worked to stabilize the website due to heavy traffic, there were delays in finding and fixing the issue with the eligibility criteria,” the agency said. The agency apologized for the added stress, and announced that it’d be making 3,500 appointments available to people who couldn’t sign up namely, residents with specific medical conditions living in priority zip codes on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 9 a.m. People can sign up through vaccinate.dc.gov or the call center.