HealthSummit19

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How Biogen's Discontinued Alzheimer’s Drug Got A Second Life

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12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s

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We Will Find a Breakthrough for Alzheimer's Disease

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To Get Perspective on America's Broken Health Care System, Talk to a British Doctor

As a Brit, there are many things about the U.S. I’m only too willing to get behind. Pizzas the diameter of a trampoline, for instance, and the fact you’re never more than a few sweaty...

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American Women Are Dying. To Save Them, We Need to Depoliticize Women's Health Care

Women’s health in the United States is in a state of emergency. In the last five years, the death rate among women ages 15 to 54 has steadily risen. An American woman today is 50%...

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Every now and then, Katie West considers returning to the U.S. She moved to Germany for graduate school three years ago and now works as a health systems researcher in Hamburg. Her family is an...

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Big Data Can Improve the Health of the World’s Most Vulnerable: Mothers and Children

Traveling recently through Southeast Asia and East Africa, I have been both amazed and appalled by how big data and other digital innovations are changing people’s lives—or not.On one hand are farmers, mostly men, who...

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Angelina Jolie: Medical Advances in Women's Health Are Important. But They're Only Part of the Picture

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After Sexual Assault, Some Survivors Seek Healing in Self-Defense

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TIME 100 Health Summit Highlights

In the first annual TIME 100 Health Summit, influential scientists, politicians and entertainers spoke about the future of health care

Last Mile Health CEO Raj Panjabi Says Underpaid Women Subsidize Health Care Globally and Doctors Are Often to Blame

'The poorest women on Earth subsidize health care globally,' Dr. Raj Panjabi told TIME

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“We’re not as healthy as we should be.” That’s what Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park said at Thursday’s TIME 100 Health Summit, where MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle interviewed him about the company’s future in...

Tig Notaro on Why Humor Was Instrumental to Healing After Her Cancer Diagnosis: 'Something Has to Break the Tension'

Comedian Tig Notaro said receiving her cancer diagnosis in 2012—which followed a series of tragic events that had upended her life—was so horrific, she had to laugh.Notaro, known for disarming, deadpan-style of comedy, spoke about...

23andMe Founder Anne Wojcicki Says Consumers With Privacy Concerns Just Need Time to Get Used to Genetic Testing

She likened it to online shopping decades ago

'We Should Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit First.' Bill Clinton Wades Into the Democratic Party's Health Care Debate

Amid widening divisions in the Democratic Party over the future of health care policy, former President Bill Clinton waded into the debate, saying the nation is “at a crossroads” on health care reform and “we...

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CMS Administrator Seema Verma Calls Medicare for All ‘Scary’ at TIME 100 Health Summit

Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Trump Administration, called Medicare for All “scary” and said the government is to blame for many problems with the United States...

Silver Addresses Fallout From the NBA-China Controversy

During the first TIME 100 Health Summit on Thursday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that he’s willing to deal with the business consequences of Daryl Morey’s Oct. 4 tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong. The...

Leana Wen Wants to Have a More Nuanced Conversation About Abortion

Leana Wen, the former head of Planned Parenthood and a professor at George Washington University, addressed a controversial statement she made on abortion during the TIME 100 Health Summit on Thursday. Wen kicked off a...

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