{"id":153676,"date":"2022-12-26T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/classifying-aging-as-a-disease-could-speed-fda-drug-approvals"},"modified":"2022-12-26T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T05:24:05","slug":"classifying-aging-as-a-disease-could-speed-fda-drug-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/classifying-aging-as-a-disease-could-speed-fda-drug-approvals","title":{"rendered":"Classifying aging as a disease could speed FDA drug approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/classifying-aging-as-a-disease-could-speed-fda-drug-approvals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers aging to be a natural process. This makes it difficult to get FDA approval for drugs that seek to slow or reverse the biological process of aging. Instead, drugs intended to target aging must target a disease that often results from the aging process in order to demonstrate efficacy and gain approval.<\/p>\n<p>But there is growing consensus and effort among scientists to convince the FDA that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2019\/08\/19\/133357\/what-if-aging-werent-inevitable-but-a-curable-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aging itself<\/a> should be classified as a disease and an appropriate target for drug development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers aging to be a natural process. This makes it difficult to get FDA approval for drugs that seek to slow or reverse the biological process of aging. Instead, drugs intended to target aging must target a disease that often results from the aging process in order to demonstrate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}