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Weighing Down America: The Health and Economic Impact of Obesity
Obesity and excess weight is an expanding health problem for more than 60 percent of Americans, and a new study...
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Obesity in the Workplace: What Employers Can Do Differently
The Milken Institute Center for Public Health (the Center) focuses on chronic disease research, policy evaluati...
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Innovative Financing for Global Health R&D
Because the eradication of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria would have a dramatic impact on emerging econ...
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Paying for Outcomes: Protecting Human and Animal Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2010, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa was hampered by agricultural diseases that sickened or killed li...
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Feeding the World's Hungry: Fostering an Efficient and Responsive Food Access Pipeline
The 2008 global financial crisis left people with less money to feed their families and institutions with fewer...
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Beyond the Limits of Traditional Health Care: A State-Level Systematic Review of Community Health Programs in the United States
Traditional health care has not reached all pockets of the U.S. population due to income inequality, increasing...
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Patient-Focused Drug Development Meetings: Smart Practices from Community Leaders
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizations that are ...
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Patient-Centric Initiatives: Focusing for Impact
The impact of patient engagement has been demonstrated by numerous case studies for specific diseases and produ...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: Pain Points and Potential
Patient engagement has been called the “blockbuster drug of the 21st century.” Studies find that the more engag...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: Building Smarter Patient Registries
Decision-makers in research, industry, policy and health-care settings are actively seeking robust sources of p...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language
Language matters. At a February 2016 workshop of leaders committed to expanding patient engagement hosted by Fa...
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Rx for Innovation: Recommendations for the New Administration
FasterCures wants President-elect Donald Trump to be ready to address biomedical innovation on day one.
Biomed...
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Alzheimer's Disease: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerate Development of New Therapies
The need is staggering. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and curren...
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Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerating Research Progress
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignant brain tumor involving glial cells of the brain. At the...
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Exploring the Impact of the 21st Century Cures Act
FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute, and Society of Women’s Health Research (SWHR) advocated for the ...
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Cures for Life: Long-Term Follow-Up Data Collection for Cell and Gene Therapies
Through significant advancements in biomedical innovation, new promising gene and cell therapy treatments may b...
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Lessons Learned From COVID-19: Are There Silver Linings for Biomedical Innovation?
FasterCures wants to ensure that the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis are not lost once the current urgency subsi...