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Transforming a Broken System
Health-care costs today are on a path to bankrupt our nation. Fast-rising costs are straining family
budgets due to long-term stagnation of real income and prevailing fears regarding job security.
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Economic impact of excess weight now exceeds $1.7 trillion, new Milken Institute report reveals
LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, October 30, 2018—The impact of obesity and overweight on the U.S.
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Making Disease Prevention a Higher National Priority
Regina Benjamin served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States, appointed by President Bara
ck Obama in 2009. As the “nation’s doctor,” she served a four-year term focusing on health disparities, disease prevention, and children’s health.
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'The Pill' Paved Way For Women's Entry Into The Upper Echelons Of America's Labor Force, Authors Argue In Latest Issue Of The Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES — It has been called the greatest science and technology advance of the 20th century. It
has been credited with the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s, and the social and sexual revolution of the 1970s.
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Globalization Virtually Guarantees that an Avian Flu Pandemic Would Have Devastating Consequences on Economic Output, According to Latest Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES — Using a computer simulation model for predicting the way economic shocks are transmitt
ed from country to country, two Australian researchers have simulated the trillion-dollar economic consequences of the next great flu pandemic.
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Afghanistan opium trade thwarts government's authority, warns Robert Looney in the latest Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES — Robert Looney, from the Naval Postgraduate School, writes about America's latest forei
gn quagmire in the Milken Institute Review.
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Where does your city rank? New Milken Institute index analyzes 359 metros to identify Best Cities for Successful Aging
Among the top tier: New York, Boston, Washington— and Provo
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Flat World = Fat World?
Milken Institute study probes link between "screen time" and rising obesity rates across the world
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Medical Research Visionaries Convene in New York, Present Model Solutions to Life Sciences’ Most Pressing Challenges
WASHINGTON – More than 700 medical research innovators from 30 states and six countries will come to
gether Nov. 1-3 in New York for the 7th annual Partnering for Cures meeting.
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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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Part 2: Social Epidemiology: Public Health and Social Movements
For the first time in decades—across race, socioeconomic status, gender, and community—Americans c
an expect shorter lifetimes. Socially impelled public health crises often drive adverse change.
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