Health and Wellness

FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizations that are interested in hosting, or are currently planning, an externally led patient-focused drug development (PFDD) meeting. We have...

The good news? People are living longer than ever. Americans reaching age 65 today can expect to live, on average, until age 85 — and about one-quarter will live past 90. The bad news? While some will have decades of active, purposeful...

T he Asia-Pacific region is facing the formidable challenge of how to provide adequate and sustainable retirement income for its aging population. The number of older persons in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to more than double, from...

Traditional health care has not reached all pockets of the U.S. population due to income inequality, increasing ethnic and cultural diversity, and deep fragmentation of the health care system. Community health models have evolved as...

Prosperous is an adjective defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “successful in material terms,” and prosperity is the noun that refers to the state of being prosperous. Thus, while prosperous principally has a financial meaning...

Prosperity to me is both physical and mental. Physical prosperity is what we have accumulated: our health, keeping fit, and longevity. However, we cannot enjoy our physical well-being without mental health. Mental health can mean different...

Prosperity is an interesting word, and for many, I would expect, the concept of wealth changes over time. In my younger years, I would have suggested prosperity meant sufficient wealth to provide for my family. Translated, this would...

If we want to create a prosperous future, we need to invest in our young people—not just in their academic success, financial literacy, or physical health but also in their mental and emotional wellness. As a mother and the head of Born...

To ensure that everyone in our great country has the opportunity for a prosperous life, there are a few important things that matter, and one of them is health. Good health is critical, and the ability to maximize healthy life years is a...

As people living in modern society, we widely believe that the market-based system of the United States, and similar ecosystems, leads to the highest distribution of prosperity because of relatively efficient resource allocation. The...