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Aspen Ideas Festival
2015 Spotlight Health Opening and Welcome
Season 1
Episode 10
Spotlight Health returns to Aspen, Colorado as the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival. This year’s theme is Smart Solutions to the World’s Toughest Challenges. From Ebola, climate change, and genetically modified organisms, to cancer, personalized medicine, and death with dignity, we’ll take on these headline-blaring challenges, and look at the future-facing solutions.
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