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Public Health Leaders Address Global Challenges at Milken Institute Summit
LOS ANGELES—The sudden appearance of the Zika virus—and the need for effective action to halt its sp
read—underlines the fact that public health issues often represent the most important threats to the welfare of the world.
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In the latest Milken Institute Review: George Mason University Economist Ken Button Takes a Hard Look at America’s Rapidly Consolidating Airline Industry—and Offers a Bold Prescription for Saving Competition
LOS ANGELES—Ken Button points out that the giant legacy carriers that stumbled through the first dec
ades of deregulation are finally covering their operating costs and are better positioned to confront future economic storms.
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In an Era of Rapid Globalization, Two Ideas for Reducing Job Insecurity
LOS ANGELES – In an article in the Milken Institute Review, Robert Litan of the Council on Foreign R
elations flatly rejects protectionism, which he sees as a dead end in a world economy irreversibly dependent on trade for prosperity.
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NIH Director Francis Collins to receive FasterCures’ Partner of the Year award
WASHINGTON – FasterCures will bestow its first-ever Partner of the Year award upon Francis Collins f
or his commitment to expanding medical innovation, his demonstrated belief in the benefits of collaboration and his tireless work on behalf of patients t
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Partnering for Cures to Bring Together Hundreds of Medical Research Leaders Nov. 13-15 in New York
WASHINGTON –Leaders across medical research – from patients to policymakers, from academia to advoca
tes, from philanthropists to federal regulators and from investors to industry – will gather at the Grant Hyatt New York, Nov.
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Americans’ Obesity Weighs Down U.S. Economy by $1.4 Trillion
WASHINGTON—Obesity and excess weight is an expanding health problem for more than 60 percent of Amer
icans, and a new study from the Milken Institute finds that it's a tremendous drain on the U.S. economy as well.
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