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Alzheimer's Disease: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerate Development of New Therapies
The need is staggering. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United State
s and currently, more than 5.5 million Americans are living with this disease for which there is yet no cure yet.
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Health and the Gender Gap
In this discussion paper on social and regional factors in well-being, Milken Institute Health
Economist Ken Sagynbekov examines gender-based health disparities across U.S. regions.
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Funding Scientific Research - A Giving Smarter Guide
Making an Impact. Strategic philanthropic investments in medical research require a careful conside
ration of the philanthropist’s priorities and an understanding of the current state of research to amplify the impact of their giving.
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Models for Biomedical Innovation and Commercialization
This report relates to a Financial Innovations Lab held in Jerusalem in 2015 that led to new work a
nd major collaborative projects between the Milken Innovation Center and universities in the U.S..
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Financing the Control of Tuberculosis
As of 2015, roughly one third of the world’s population, mostly in poorer countries, carried tuberc
ulosis bacteria in their system. Given the characteristics of airborne diseases like tuberculosis, coordination among national and international age
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: Building Smarter Patient Registries
Decision-makers in research, industry, policy and health-care settings are actively seeking robust
sources of patient data to inform patient-centered practices, policies and outputs.
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Rx for Innovation: Recommendations for the New Administration
FasterCures wants President-elect Donald Trump to be ready to address biomedical innovation on day
one.
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Wisdom in the Workforce: Unlocking the Economic Value of Asia’s Aging Population
Older populations are growing rapidly in a number of Asian countries. As working people reach age m
ilestones and exit the labor force, questions arise: How will the traditional retirement years be financed?
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Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerating Research Progress
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignant brain tumor involving glial cells of the b
rain. At the time of this report, nearly 15,000 people were diagnosed with GBM each year in the United States and Europe.
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language
Language matters.
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Undercapitalization: Closing the Gender Growth Gap Across Industries
Despite mounting evidence of the returns on investing in women-led ventures, only 2.2 percent of t
he $85 billion invested in 2017 went to all-women teams, and less than 10 percent of all venture-capital deals go to women, people of color, and LGBTQ foun
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Toward a Healthier Future
Conventional wisdom often suggests that a nation's health is a byproduct of its wealth.