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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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Kidney Failure - A Giving Smarter Guide
This Giving Smarter Guide is the culmination of a year-long effort to identify strategic philanthro
pic opportunities that can move the needle on unmet needs specific to kidney failure research and treatment. Kidney failure is an irreversible diseas
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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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The Price Women Pay for Dementia: Strategies to Ease Gender Disparity and Economic Costs
Technical Update
video
Quality Assurance: Why Women Lead Most Health-Care Decisions
Watch as our panelists examine why women make more than 80 percent of family health decisions and
are responsible for nearly 90 percent of health spending decisions in The United States.
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video
Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
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Embracing Diversity Is Critical as We Face Today’s Challenges Together
We must look out for each other in this time of need. We all share this responsibility., If we learn
to put aside our racial and religious prejudices, what a wonderful world it would be.
, We miss out when we dismiss others based on their cultural background or ethnicity. As a Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, I have seen firsthand how quickly others may make assumptions or reject a person based on their appearance, race
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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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Dementia Exacts Heaviest Toll on Women: New Milken Institute Report Quantifies the Direct and Indirect Economic Effects of Cognitive Loss
LOS ANGELES—Dementia presents a pernicious gender-based health disparity in the United States, infli
cting a disproportionate burden on women as both patients and caregivers.
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20th Milken Institute Global Conference to Drive Discussion and Action toward “Building Meaningful Lives”
LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2017 — The Milken Institute will host its 20th annual Global Conference from
April 30 through May 3, bringing together more than 4,000 attendees from more than 50 countries to craft and carry out creative solutions to t
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