Health and Wellness

Elizabeth Blackburn is one of only 12 women to have won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her co-discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, an area of the chromosome related to the process of aging. In an...

Countries undergoing population aging today are facing a much different experience than their historical counterparts. One only needs to look at the countries in Asia to see how these trends are unfolding. Demographic aging is happening...

Americans' chronic health problems and diseases not only come at the expense of individuals well-being, they also constitute a massive burden on the U.S. economy. When including the costs of lost economic productivity, the total costs of...

SINGAPORE — The Milken Institute will bring together regional and global leaders representing more than 20 countries for its fifth annual Asia Summit in Singapore. The program, which will be held 13-14 September 2018, will address the...

LOS ANGELES—More than 4,000 international leaders in business, government, science, philanthropy, academia, arts, and culture will meet in California for the 21 st Milken Institute Global Conference beginning April 29, 2018. Confirmed...

LOS ANGELES, February 22, 2018 – Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography, according to a new report released by the Milken...

Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act now to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography. To discuss the significance of population aging for the business sector and...

“What outcomes matter to patients?” This question is asked at nearly every meeting in biomedical R&D and health care. As FasterCures has documented over the years, there is a big change afoot to place patients in the center of medical...

WASHINGTON, January 23, 2018 – Tanisha Carino, Ph.D., the respected senior executive with more than two decades of experience in academia, government, and the private sector, is joining the Milken Institute as executive director of...

Aging is big business. A growing demand for everything from comfortable shoes to on-call caregivers prompted a New York Times headline to declare baby boomers as the hottest start-up market in 2016. In fact, the sum of all economic activity...