POSTPONED because of weather. Check back for information about when this is rescheduled.
New York investigative medical journalist Katherine Eban will talk about the industry and her new book “Bottle of Lies.”
Her work reveals how rampant fraud among generic drug manufacturers and lax FDA oversight put patients’ health at risk. In the United States, 90% of spending for all pharmaceuticals goes for generic drugs because health insurers limit choice by steering patients to these medications, which are cheaper than brand-name drugs.
Over the next 20 years, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias in the United States is expected to nearly double. The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging’s new report offers five key recommendations to improve brain health and decrease disparities, ideally helping to change the course of this devastating disease.