Medical Research Needs More Strange Bedfellows
By Cecilia Arradaza, Communications Director, FasterCures
Source:http://fastercures.blogspot.com/2009/04/medical-research-needs-more-strange.html
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"In yesterday's Washington Post, E.J. Dionne makes the case that this year, is "healthcare's year." He claims "this is the year Congress will finally give every American access to health insurance." As "healthcare reform," mainly healthcare coverage, continues to rise to the top of the nation's domestic priorities, the biomedical research industry needs to continue to work fast and furious to ensure that we will actually have available the safe and effective drugs and devices that we've worked so hard to get covered.
The process of bringing drugs to market is laborious, complex, and lengthy. Shareholder-driven entities and public organizations need to take high risks. Advocacy groups need to be armed with the right tools to support and scrutinize. Healthcare consumers need to understand and appreciate what medical research entails and be willing participants in the process, ideally before they become patients. Medical providers need to be able to go beyond the six-minute window they have to "deliver care" and actually provide patients with easy-to-grasp information that will empower them to make right decisions and engage them in the process of finding a cure.
At FasterCures, our efforts focus on finding new medical solutions by seeking ways to disentangle conflicting incentives that permeate the medical research environment, misaligned priorities, and often, misplaced regulation. We share this commitment with numerous like-minded organizations. But we can't continue talking among ourselves. We need diverse voices because disease and disability knows no bounds."
"We need more un-scientists experimenting with science."
Jimmy B
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