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Advancing Models of Patient Engagement: Patient Organizations as Research and Data Partners
FasterCures, alongside other patient-focused advocacy organizations, has long worked with stakeholders such a...
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Getting More From Biomedical Innovation
In 2018 the FDA approved a record number of new products, but pharmaceutical R&D returns have fallen to their lowest lev...
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A Good Man: What's Happened to American Masculinity?
American masculinity has always been unique. Forged in the country's origin story and polished to a high sheen by Hollywood ...
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Walking the Talk: Are D&I Policies Shifting Corporate Culture?
Companies are increasingly adopting quotas, implementing reporting and transparency measures, and investing in professional ...
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Supporting Wellness: Initial Findings from a Survey of Lived Experience and Research Priorities of Depression and Bipolar
In 2018, the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance...
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Next Generation Prevention - A Giving Smarter Guide
Precision health focuses on improving overall health and preventing disease, rather than treating disease. Usin...
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Misophonia - A Giving Smarter Guide
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Misophonia is a condition in which specific sensory sensations, such as a particular sound, le...
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Women in the Workforce: How California Measures Up
California is one of the world’s largest economies, home to 53 of the Fortune 500 companies and a leader in ind...
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Alzheimer's Disease - A Giving Smarter Guide
Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly in the spotlight after a number of high-profile clinical trial failures—an ...
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Best Practices for Technical Assistance Programs Serving Black and Hispanic Entrepreneurs and Small-Business Owners
In conjunction with the Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM), a Milken Institute and U.S. Smal...
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capital among Bla...
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Targeting Tau — Our Hope to Solving the Dementia Crisis
In our systems-based review of the biomedical landscape supporting research of a cellular protein called tau—a ...
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PLUM Phase II Summary: Lessons Learned for Advancing Minority Small Business Capital Access
The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLU...
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Patient-Reported Outcomes: Design with the End in Mind
“What outcomes matter to patients?”
This question is asked at nearly every meeting in biomedical R&D and h...
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Gender-Based Health Disparities: A State-Level Study of the American Adult Population
Many studies empirically investigate sex differences in health outcomes at national and international levels, b...
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Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets Phase I Summary: Developing Action-Oriented Solutions to the Financing Challenges Facing Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Minority-owned small businesses play an important role in the nation’s economic health by driving job creation,...
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Kidney Failure - A Giving Smarter Guide
This Giving Smarter Guide is the culmination of a year-long effort to identify strategic philanthropic opportun...
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Lipedema - A Giving Smarter Guide
A chronic condition that occurs almost exclusively in women, lipedema manifests as symmetrical buildup of painf...
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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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Epilepsy - A Giving Smarter Guide
At the time of this report, approximately 30 to 40 percent of epilepsy patients were treatment resistant. The m...