Top Ten Medical Research Issues and Trends to Watch in 2017

 I expect our fucking failures of stroke associations will do nothing with this.  No direct relation but we fit under 4, 5,6 and 8.
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Margaret Anderson Executive Director, FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute

2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome almost no one predicted, left many with a sense of uncertainty about what 2017 will bring in the biomedical and health-care space. To bring clarity to these unsure times, FasterCures has compiled a list of issues critical to the future of medical innovation that we’ll be tracking over the coming year. While some issues will be closely linked with the people and policies of the new presidential administration, we think all will be important to continuing the progress toward faster cures and treatments.

1. FDA: What is the roadmap going forward?

2. What size would you like: small, medium or big science?

3. Clinical trial innovation and reform: It’s a big job but somebody’s gotta do it.

4. Doing science in the real world.

5. Patient-centricity: What’s the ROI?

6. Move over direct-to-consumer ads - it’s time for direct-to-patient R&D.

7. Digitization of disease, and health.

8. Data sharing: Where there’s a will, there needs to be a way.

9. Evolution of value frameworks.

10. Blockchain could be good for your health.