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Health Wrapped: The Top 10 Conversations of 2023
![New Era for Alzheimer’s Disease?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/772f4126-a2b5-4782-8f41-ec28b72c42a6/52998983235_2ae2225201_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=1152%2C0%2C3661%2C5504&w=400)
The world has renewed hope that impactful treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias may finally be on the horizon. While previous therapies have modestly improv...
![Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Speaks Truth on Public Health, Mental Health, and Our Well-Being](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/af7f0c07-0a67-4102-a46c-32082c3d3554/53000201837_54407b1ca3_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C33%2C1600%2C900&w=400)
As the nation’s top doctor, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy helps to advance the health and well-being of all Americans. He has described the growing youth mental health crisi...
![Closing Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e2ae40ae-7c31-4abc-a20f-f50361ab7f37/230624_closing_036.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C416%2C4000%2C2251&w=400)
Featuring three one-on-one conversations, our tenth anniversary closing session is not to be missed! We begin with comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who opens up to bestselling autho...
![Your Brain on Art](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/26336de7-d3bf-4642-a7ea-f365f81a7958/52997372984_9e32eceb36_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C300%2C5865%2C3301&w=400)
The arts are not a luxury or an escape, but a vital tool for thriving physically, mentally, and spiritually. Neuroscience explains how art changes the body, brain, and behavio...
![Moonshots to Transform Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/48785ae0-3830-41ae-afc4-e5299255a759/52997848900_8baaf9912e_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=2129%2C0%2C2426%2C3648&w=400)
Research that can generate transformative, high-impact biomedical and health breakthroughs, from the molecular to the societal, is gaining traction as the Advanced Research Pr...
![It's Hot: The Truth About Menopause](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/8e1bfae4-5a5a-4f87-a8fa-40a7b79c4599/52997349380_c93e433ac1_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=192%2C1210%2C4967%2C2803&w=400)
For many women reaching middle age, menopause is a liberating signal that the childbearing years have come to an end. But with its characteristic hot flashes and complex effec...
![Birthing Justice: The Maternal Mortality Crisis](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/dbfb6de8-66c3-4212-bf09-d7f8d6f1779d/52997119939_7a2b73577f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=572%2C11%2C7382%2C4144&w=400)
If Black women bear the heaviest burdens of the maternal mortality crisis—they are 2.6 times more likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth—they are also the...
![Hope in the War Against Cancer](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/335afb1d-7a3b-46c8-94c9-f34906727964/52997676429_323e6e55f4_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C5472%2C3080&w=400)
Declining cancer death rates, promising research, and innovative technology suggest the tide may be turning in the long war against cancer. Clinical trials using CRISPR techno...
![Chelsea Clinton on the Fight for Reproductive Health](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c353427a-d44b-4b02-a9cd-a58ade2f8b5e/52994934840_e4fee821e3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C8256%2C4640&w=400)
There is no sugar-coating the grim data on women’s reproductive health. Globally, hundreds of millions of women lack access to modern contraception and almost 300,000 women di...