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February 15, 2018Last month, Pfizer announced plans to end its new drug research efforts for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases—a devastating blow for those seeking therapeutic developments for neurodegenerative disease. -
January 29, 2018Peter W. Mullin argues that supporting transformational products, services, and ideas to empower enhanced health and wealth expectancy, longer lives, lived well, will be the new retirement goal for all. -
January 29, 2018Longer lives call for changing outdated beliefs about people 50+. -
January 29, 2018People are living longer, healthier lives allowing them to work longer, pursue more meaningful endeavors and earn and spend more money. -
January 29, 2018This essay proposes increasing and sustaining bioresilience as a method to achieve low mortality rates, much longer healthy lifespans and, eventually, ultimate health. -
Carole Biau
November 29, 2017As a country gets richer, the quality of and access to health care for its citizens naturally goes up. -
November 21, 2017The Center for Strategic Philanthropy of the Milken Institute has been working with 23andMe and Lundbeck on a first-of-its-kind study on Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders. -
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Ken Sagynbekov
October 19, 2017Let's set aside, for a moment, the moral victory represented by each life saved and look at what this means from the standpoint of exploding medical costs and health-care policy. -
Taylor Cusher
September 15, 2017The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology estimates that 41 percent of Americans have never viewed their health data, but when they do, the majority finds the information helpful. -
August 17, 2017Seeking to better understand collaboration in biomedical R&D? FasterCures has added more than 80 consortia profiles to Consortia-pedia, a searchable catalogue of 500+ profiles of research collaborations. -
August 14, 2017Clinical trials, the single largest contributor to the time and cost of medical research, are important, expensive, complicated, and opaque. -
LaTese Briggs
August 02, 2017When web developer Madayln Parker needed a mental health day, she opened up to her boss via email. She sent a message notifying her coworkers she was taking time off to focus on... -
Sophie Okolo
July 21, 2017Even in Los Angeles, a city so youth-obsessed that Andy Warhol called it “plastic,” there are about a half-million residents who are age 60 and older — a number that... -
Sophie Okolo
May 25, 2017Studies have shown that excessive alcohol use can lead to many health problems such as dementia and cognitive decline, particularly among older people. -
Ebony Motley
April 12, 2017April is National Donate Life Month—my mother’s birthday was March 31. This single day gap proved to be a theme in her life I wish we could have avoided. -
March 10, 2017The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has faced persistent challenges in hiring and retaining top talent in the centers that review medical products. -
February 02, 2017FasterCures expands on findings from the "Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language" report with "Four Steps to Advance the Conversation about Patient Engagement." If we want...
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