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Achieving Health Equity: A Multi-Stakeholder Action Plan to Address Diversity across the Clinical Trials Enterprise and the Biomedical Research Ecosystem
Clinical trials have been used for decades as the primary way by which researchers determine if a n
ew treatment is safe and effective for human use.
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Creating a Nonprofit Marketplace for Shelved Drugs: Lessons from a Pilot Project
Many promising medicines, despite strong safety data and pharmaceutical characteristics, are discon
tinued by drug companies for nonscientific reasons, including strategic, organizational, and financial considerations.
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14 Strategies for Partnering with Mission-Focused Banks
Throughout American history, substantial inequality has existed, particularly in minority communiti
es for whom median household wealth continues to lag significantly compared to nonminorities.
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The Community Explorer: Informing Policy with County-Level Data
The Community Explorer investigates US health disparities by first understanding populati
ons’ specificities then looking at their health profile.
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Hedging Pipeline Risk in Pharma: FDA Swaps and Annuities
The cost of capital to conduct medical R&D is high because investors must be compensated with s
ignificant returns to offset the risky and long drug-development process.
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Nonprofits: A Growing Force in Drug Development
Shepherding a drug from discovery to the market is a complex process that involves many actors.
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Patient-Focused Drug Development Meetings: Smart Practices from Community Leaders
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizatio
ns that are interested in hosting, or are currently planning, an externally led patient-focused drug development (PFDD)
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GBM: Giving Smarter
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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State Technology and Science Index 2016: Sustaining Americas Innovation Economy
As the Great Recession recedes in our rearview mirrors, it is becoming ever more apparent that inno
vative activities are determining an increasing proportion of the long-term economic growth of cities, metropolitan areas, regions, states, and even natio
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Models for Financing Antibiotic Development to Address Antimicrobial Resistance
The Financial Innovations Labs® and FasterCures teams have collaborated on a project to id
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The Community Explorer Chart Variable Descriptions
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The Community Explorer Research Brief
Correlating one-pager for the Community Explorer interactive tool and The Community E