Check out the Time=Lives campaign: http://timeequalslives.org/ Despite the billions of dollars flowing through our healthcare system, it still takes about 15 years, on average, to move a scientific breakthrough from microscope to marketplace. For the more than 100 million Americans living with cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, and others for which there are no cures and few meaningful treatment options, this is simply too long to wait. People are dying every day waiting for treatments and cures, and unless we fix the broad, systemic issues that are stalling progress, this won’t change. To save lives, we have to save time.
