Nigeria: Hope Rises for Drugs to Extend Person's Healthy Years

RESEARCHERS hope to find drugs that extend a person's healthy years. Doctors and scientists want drug regulators and research funding agencies to consider medicines that delay ageing-related disease as legitimate drugs. Such treatments have a physiological basis, researchers say, and could extend a person's healthy years by slowing down the processes that underlie common diseases of ageing -- making them worthy of government approval.

On June 24, researchers will meet with regulators from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make the case for a clinical trial designed to show the validity of the approach.

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