Health, Science and Wealth

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Two Nobel Prize winners discuss longevity's impact on neurodegenerative diseases, drug development, and health care as a driver of economic growth in the years ahead. Dr. Fogel puts forth that health care, rather than a burden, is the leading sector of the U.S. economy; the engine that will drive the entire economy forward in the twenty-first century just as the railroads did in the nineteenth. Dr. Prusiner, who discovered the infectious particle that causes mad cow disease, speaks to the pressing need for blood tests to diagnose Alzheimer's and Parkinson's long before their debilitating symptoms develop, and argues that, in order to do so, a fertile economy for research is key.

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