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    Nearly 1 in 5 recruiting US trials for adults exclude people 80 and older by rule

    The FDA's new draft guidance says early-phase solid tumor trials should in general set no upper age limit, and most already set none. A Priority Review analysis of 11,830 recruiting US trials finds the limits elsewhere: 41.8% of mental health trials and 38.3% of metabolic trials exclude people 80 and older.