Hill April 3, 2023
The federal government plans to launch a $300 million initiative to build an Alzheimer’s research database in an effort to track the health of Americans for decades and learn more about the devastating disease.
Reuters reported on Monday that the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, will fund the six-year project that aims to build a data platform capable of housing long-term health information on 70 to 90 percent of the country’s population.
NIA officials told Reuters that the new database will draw its...