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Christina Warinner:...
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15:12:16 04/20/12

Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner i...

Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

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Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

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Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's found a spectacular new tool -- the microbial DNA in fossilized dental plaque.

Atul Gawande: How d...
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15:28:24 04/16/12

Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Do...

Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

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Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?

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Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.

Tal Golesworthy: Ho...
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14:23:31 04/12/12

Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engi...

Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart

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Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart

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Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair job.

Melinda Gates: Let'...
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14:57:05 04/11/12

Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on...

Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda

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Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda

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Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids. In this significant talk, she makes the case for the world to re-examine an issue she intends to lend her voice to for the next decade.

Jack Choi: On the v...
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15:13:28 04/05/12

Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you expl...

Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table

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Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table

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Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.

Noel Bairey Merz: T...
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15:29:53 03/21/12

Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shar...

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

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Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

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Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

Myshkin Ingawale: A...
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14:51:42 03/20/12

Anemia is a major -- and completely preventable -- cause of deaths in childbirth in many places around the world, but the standard test is invasive and slow. In th...

Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding

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Myshkin Ingawale: A blood test without bleeding

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Anemia is a major -- and completely preventable -- cause of deaths in childbirth in many places around the world, but the standard test is invasive and slow. In this witty and inspiring talk, TED Fellow Myshkin Ingawale describes how (after 32 tries) he and his team created a simple, portable, low-cost device that can test for anemia without breaking the skin.

Paul Conneally: Dig...
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15:37:56 02/17/12

The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts. At...

Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism

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Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism

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The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts. At TEDxRC2, Paul Conneally shows extraordinary examples of social media and other new technologies becoming central to humanitarian aid.

Lucien Engelen: Cro...
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16:07:08 02/15/12

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? At TEDxMaastricht, Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are chang...

Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health

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Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health

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You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? At TEDxMaastricht, Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local defibrillators.

Bill Doyle: Treatin...
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16:00:27 01/31/12

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, wh...

Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields

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Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields

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Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, which uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Still in its infancy -- and approved for only certain types of cancer -- the treatment comes with one big benefit: quality of life.

Brian Goldman: Doct...
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16:09:18 01/25/12

Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine's culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or u...

Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?

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Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?

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Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine's culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling stories from his own long practice, he calls on doctors to start talking about being wrong.

Award-winning teen-...
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16:03:56 01/10/12

In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary...

Award-winning teen-age science in action

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Award-winning teen-age science in action

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In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects-- and their route to a passion for science.

Jane Fonda: Life's ...
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15:59:45 01/04/12

Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda...

Jane Fonda: Life's third act

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Jane Fonda: Life's third act

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Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new phase of our lives.

A.J. Jacobs: How he...
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14:15:19 01/03/12

For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping...

A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

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A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

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For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned.

Alberto Cairo: Ther...
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15:01:48 12/23/11

Alberto Cairo's clinics in Afghanistan used to close down during active fighting. Now, they stay open. At TEDxRC2 (the RC stands for Red Cross/Red Crescent), Cairo...

Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men

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Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men

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Alberto Cairo's clinics in Afghanistan used to close down during active fighting. Now, they stay open. At TEDxRC2 (the RC stands for Red Cross/Red Crescent), Cairo tells the powerful story of why -- and how he found humanity and dignity in the midst of war.

Sheila Nirenberg: A...
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15:25:49 12/20/11

At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a ...

Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

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Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

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At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

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Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe

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Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe
03/16/10

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.