What will 2020 bring for health and science? Some leaders share their predictions 

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Between 2020 being the start of a new decade and the year of a presidential election, there has already been a fair bit of soothsaying in the air. We at STAT did our part by reaching out to 16 experts to get a sense of what they think this year will bring for health and medicine. Technology has already permeated health care, but Google Health’s Dr. David Feinberg predicts that health tech will only make getting care easier if companies in this space can earn the trust of consumers and not compromise on data privacy. Others predict advances for diseases that afflict the world’s poorest people as well as increased scrutiny of psychostimulants such as methamphetamines. Check out the rest of the predictions here.