Despite their prevalence, arthritis, neck, and back pain receive few research dollars - Harvard Gazette

Costing billions and affecting millions, musculoskeletal diseases impact more than one in three people in the U.S. and are a leading driver of healthcare spending, at an estimated cost of more than $380 billion in 2016.

"To bring funding into alignment with the level of disease burden would require an approximately 10-fold increase to start with."

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