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"It's a little bit like doing CSI, but for infectious diseases." Bill Hanage, PhD, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is developing a new method of sequence typing DNA. Learn more about how it’s achieving quicker results.

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Ben Sommers, MD, PhD, professor of health policy and economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses his research which examines Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion models and their associated impacts on healthcare.

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What's the value of healthcare? Ankur Pandya, PhD, assistant professor of health decision science in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses his work using cost-effectiveness analysis to define value in healthcare services and the implications of this method on developing health policy.

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Corrie Painter, PhD, associate director of operations and scientific outreach in the Cancer Program of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, discusses how her diagnosis with a rare cancer, angiosarcoma, led her to develop patient-driven cancer research initiatives, including the nonprofit Count Me In.

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Stroke occurs in about 800,000 U.S. patients each year. Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD, MGH, discusses his work running a phase 3 clinical trial investigating brain swelling in stroke patients and the challenges associated with running a multisite clinical trial.

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Is it possible to preserve tissues in a patient who has sustained a traumatic injury? Giorgio Giatsidis, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses his innovative work in tissue preservation and regeneration.

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Peggy Lai, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses her research on the effects of solar lighting on indoor air pollution in Uganda, and the importance of engaging study staff and the local population.

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Ten percent of people claim they have an allergy to penicillin, but 90 percent are actually not allergic. Once labeled as penicillin-allergic, patients end up with higher medical costs, longer hospital stays, are more likely to be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and develop drug-resistant bacterial infections. Kim Blumenthal, MD, MSc, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses this problem and potential solutions.

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Alex Lin, PhD, director of the Center for Clinical Spectroscopy at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Department of Radiology, discusses his traumatic brain injury research. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Lin’s work focuses on measuring brain chemistry

JoAnn Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-director of the VITAL Study, returns to her findings from this national clinical trial on benefits of Vitamin D and Omega-3s.