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Everything costs 82x times more than it should. Efficiency is for other industries.
It costs $41K to include one person in a study. That's more than most people make in a year.
To make one new drug costs $2.6B. Then they charge sick people to pay it back.
Between 21,000 and 120,000 people die every decade because the paperwork takes too long.
86.1% of sick people can't join trials. Apparently they're not sick in the right way.
95% of diseases have no cure. We're really good at the other 5%, though.
It takes 14 years from 'we found a cure!' to actually getting it. Most of us will be dead by then.
45.1B possible cures exist. We've tested approximately none of them.
2.4B people are sick right now. The system is working exactly as designed.
We haven't cured a major disease in 44 years. But don't worry, we're very busy.
GOVERNMENTS SPEND
THAN CLINICAL TRIALS TO DISCOVER NEW TREATMENTS FOR DISEASES
That tiny line on the left? That's ALL of modern medicine.
You cannot have "diminishing returns" when you haven't even started.
The 9.5M figure above only counts single drugs against diseases. Modern medicine increasingly uses combination therapies (standard in oncology, HIV, cardiology).
Note: We use the conservative 9.5M figure in our main calculations because single-drug trials are more straightforward. But the combination therapy space shows the true scale of unexplored medicine.
Clinical trials are how we discover which treatments work for which diseases. At current trial capacity, we find first effective treatments for only ~15 diseases per year.
Pragmatic trials cost ~44× less than traditional trials. This funding enables 12× more trials = ~180 first treatments per year.
Critics argue: "Just funding more trials won't proportionally increase discoveries - we've picked the low-hanging fruit."
This is wrong for six reasons:
Diminishing returns apply to repeated attempts at the same problem. We're proposing to attempt problems we've never tried.
This timeline shows how soon we could find a first treatment for all 6,650 untreated diseases. Under the status quo (~15 new treatments/year), it takes 443 years. With increased pragmatic trial funding, we can accelerate discovery dramatically.
Treatments exist. Safe compounds exist. Patients are waiting.
The missing ingredient is trial capacity. That's a logistics problem, not a scientific frontier.
See what the platonic ideal of healthcare and clinical trials will look like when dFDA frameworks are widely adopted.
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Search for trials based on your condition, location, and preferences.
Review comprehensive outcome data before deciding to join a trial.
Complete informed consent and enroll in your chosen trial.
Schedule lab tests, provider visits, and import your health records.
Record your diet, treatment adherence, symptoms, and more.
View personalized analytics about your health and treatment response.
Receive personalized daily check-ins from your FDAi AI agent that monitors your progress, collects data, and provides insights in a conversational way.
Your personal health assistant
Good morning, Sarah! How are you feeling today after your treatment yesterday?
I'm feeling better today. The headache is gone but I still feel a bit tired.
That's good progress! Your fatigue has decreased by 40% since last week. Would you like to see how your symptoms compare to others in your trial?
Yes, please show me.
Our AI analyzes patient EHR data to identify and rank the most suitable and effective clinical trials, saving you time.
Review detailed outcome labels, compare trial arms (including placebo/standard of care), and assign patients directly.
Track key metrics, patient-reported outcomes, and overall trial status through an intuitive dashboard.
P12345: Mild ARIA reported
P67890: Headache (resolved)
The new and improved FDA.gov would make it effortless for researchers to create a trial and invite patients to join.
Upload protocols, pre/post-clinical data, and register your supply chain through the FDA.gov V2's intuitive interface.
Automatically receive and select liability insurance quotes per subject with transparent pricing.
Define patient pricing, required data collection, and refundable deposits to optimize your trial.
Track inventory, fulfill patient orders, and manage the entire treatment supply chain with end-to-end visibility.
Access real-time insights, analyze effectiveness data, and make informed decisions with comprehensive dashboards and reporting tools.
When you stop making people fill out paperwork and start letting them not die, something magical happens:
$637 returned for every $1 invested
Not a typo. Not a fever dream. Actual math.
This beats humanity's previous greatest hits in the "not dying" genre:
WHERE THE VALUE COMES FROM:
Value comes from faster drug approvals (14 years → 2 years), better treatment matching through real-world data, and addressing neglected diseases that companies ignore.
A 84.8M:1 Return on Investment
A $1B campaign yields $84.8 Quadrillion in health value.
Where The Value Comes From:
Math says this is the best possible use of a billion dollars.
Math is rarely wrong about money. People are frequently wrong about money.
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/year scales trial capacity 12X, achieving 247 years of progress in 20
Through a 212-year average timeline shift: 12× trial capacity + eliminating 8.2-year regulatory delays
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