Why the US needs a unified, mission-based strategy for health innovation

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A researcher at a medical-technology firm in California that produces artificial heart valves. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

For 80 years, federally supported research in the United States has fuelled scientific and technological advancements, including the Internet, space exploration and the development of semiconductors and biotechnologies. In biomedicine, innovations have led to vaccines and therapeutics, breakthroughs in cancer and cardiovascular care and gains in life expectancy and quality of life.

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