<h1 class="program-skin--color">Stories of Modern Health: When Patients Innovate</h1><br /><p>As we witness an increasing "individualization" of medicine, we concurrently see developing forms of patient-led research where groups of patients use crowdsourcing platforms to speed up clinical trial recruitment, test new treatments and share data on diseases that have been neglected by commercial research. Such empowerment will thrive if those at the sharp end of personalized medicine start a conversation with these “Citizen Health Inventors” and with the public.</p>