Health and Wellness

"At PanCAN, we believe that ‘partnering for patients’ means the patient voice and experience is at the center of every decision we make as an organization." — Julie Fleshman, CEO, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network To build on conversations...

"Work together to adopt innovations across all stages of cancer—striving for extending life in advanced cancer to early cancer detection when it can most easily be treated." — Craig Eagle, Chief Medical Officer, Guardant Health To build on...

"Digital medicine has the potential to build a more patient-led health system. To do this safely, effectively, and equitably, we must have industry stakeholder collaboration." — Andrea Coravos, Co-Founder and CEO, HumanFirst, Inc. To build...

"We have a commitment to equitably partner with patients not just for them. We are obligated to learn from patients in places they are most empowered, physically and virtually." — Silas Buchanan, CEO, Institute for eHealth Equity To build...

"The road to best health outcomes for patients takes a GPS, bridges, streets, pavement, etc. Without working in partnerships, the journey is nothing but a bunch of potholes." — Donna Appell, Executive Director and Founder, Hermansky-Pudlak...

While the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the fault lines in the biomedical innovation ecosystem that have slowed progress for decades, we have also shown ourselves capable of innovating in ways we perhaps did not...

Clinical trials have been used for decades as the primary way by which researchers determine if a new treatment is safe and effective for human use. Within the biomedical research ecosystem, participants in clinical trials often do not...

When every member of the United Nations signed on to the Astana Declaration in October 2018, it offered a new commitment to making comprehensive primary care available and accessible to all—to every single person, irrespective of relative...

Despite scientific progress over the past 25 years, dementia remains one of the toughest health-care challenges. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, and the number of deaths from all related...

New blood-based technologies, known as multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests, are entering the market and can identify multiple cancers early and simultaneously. These tests detect signals found in DNA that cancer cells shed into the...