New Survey Finds Alzheimer's Disease a 'National Priority,' with Voter Support Across Party Lines for Congressional Action and Faster FDA Review of New Therapies

A new voter survey sponsored by the ACT-AD Coalition (Accelerate Cure/Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease) finds that three-quarters of Americans nationwide and across party lines say it is personally important to them to find a cure or to prevent Alzheimer's disease, while a similar proportion of the national electorate say they look to Congress to make it "a national priority" to speed up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) review process in specific ways for therapies that slow, halt or reverse the disease. Voters in large numbers also said that they would not be able to cover the personal cost of Alzheimer's care and that they were ready to reward or punish elected officials at the...

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