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When Urgent Care Replaces Primary Care, Who Gets Left Behind?
HealthSpark, Episode 29: Mallika Marshall, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and Revere Health Center, reflects on the critical gaps in how the US health care system serves vulnerable populations and how strengthening access to primary care can move us toward more equitable outcomes.
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TOFA: A New Way to Lose Weight?
In this episode of Science Snapshot, learn how the oral compound TOFA helped obese mice lose weight by encouraging the body to burn more energy and fat—and how this approach differs from GLP-1-based medicines.
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Why Does the World's Most Expensive Health Care System Fall Short on Health Outcomes?
HealthSpark, Episode 28: Benjamin Rome, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a health policy researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, illuminates how fragmented incentives, high prices, and policy choices make US health care so expensive and what it will take to change that.
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How GLP-1 Therapies Are Transforming Health Care and the Future of Care Delivery
While GLP-1–based therapies are expanding from diabetes treatment to broad multi-system care, their growing complexity is reshaping clinical collaboration, health system organization, and the ongoing challenge of making these transformative medications affordable and accessible.
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Don't Just Model What You Do, Model How You Think
MedEdPearls September 2026: Modeling Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education
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What Happens When Only Some Parts of the World Can Respond to Disease Outbreaks?
HealthSpark, Episode 27: Christopher Carter, molecular epidemiologist at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, examines how pathogen genomic sequencing can strengthen disease surveillance and why equitable global access to epidemiological tools is so important for global health security.
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Are Current Medical Device Regulations Obsolete in an AI-driven, Digital Health Future?
HealthSpark, Episode 26: Ariel Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics, and Policy at the Hasso Plattner Institute and Professor at the University of Potsdam, examines how rapidly evolving algorithms and digital therapeutics are challenging legacy oversight systems, and what smarter, more adaptive policy approaches may require.
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The Leadership Engine as a Map for Clinical Leadership Development
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, an integrated approach to developing clinical leadership and teamwork skills across all levels of healthcare teams is discussed.
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Can Addressing One Disease Transform Global Health?
HealthSpark, Episode 25: Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, reflects on why obesity is one of modern medicine's most complex challenges and how coordinated action across care delivery, public health, and industry can reduce its impact on patients, health systems, and economies worldwide.
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Translating Surgical Expertise into Leadership Impact
While surgeons hone critical thinking, teamwork, and calm under pressure in the OR, formal leadership training can help them channel those strengths into broader organizational impact across today’s evolving health care landscape.
