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TEDMED 2020
Gokul Upadhyayula
The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D
Katherine Eban
A dose of reality about generic drugs
Anne Marie Albano
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
Anne Basting
How to meaningfully reconnect with those who have dementia
Homer Venters
Exposing the deadly health risks of incarceration
Thijs Biersteker
Bringing facts to life through ecological art
Jonathan Gruber
What's next for healthcare reform
Shekinah Elmore
The courage to live with radical uncertainty
Louise Aronson
Embracing elderhood as a stage of life
Lisa Sanders
Why we need medical diagnosis detectives
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Anupam B. Jena
The profound difference between seeing and looking
Michel Maharbiz
Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs
TEDMED 2018
Jason Shepherd
How an ancient virus spread the ability to remember
Daniel Streicker
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
Rabiaa El Garani
Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS
Marilène Oliver
The art and science of our digital selves
Niobe Way
Why "boys will be boys" is a myth—and a harmful one at that
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin
What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
Tim Lu
Biological engineering—the nexus between computer programming and medicine
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
sj Miller
Why gender identity justice matters for everyone
Jerome M. Adams
The 20th U.S. Surgeon General’s perspectives on the nation’s biggest health issues
Kate Bowler
"Everything happens for a reason" — and other lies I've loved
Sherry Johnson
My fight to end child marriage in America
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Dr. Farida
A Syrian OB/GYN perseveres amidst conflict
Michael Hendryx
The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end
Frans de Waal
The surprising science of alpha males
Keenan Wyrobek
Engineering a new mission for drones
Betty Diamond
What happens when the immune system goes rogue?
Meg Gaines
Why partnership is at the core of effective healthcare
Jim Johnson
Lessons learned from the center of America’s opioid epidemic
Dan Knights
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Linda B. Rosenthal
Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one?
Guo-li Ming
How organoids helped unravel the mystery of the Zika virus
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Shai Shen-Orr
Hey Doc, how's my immune system doing?
Soka Moses
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
TEDMED 2016: What If
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Flint’s fight for America’s children
Bruce Schneier
Who controls your medical data?
Johannes Haushofer
The psychological consequences of poverty
Larissa MacFarquhar
Understanding extreme altruism
Sarah Outen
Looping the planet by pedal, paddle, and perseverance
Sam Maher
The transcendent power of music
Carolyn Jones
A tribute to nurses
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
Jeremy Farrar
How we can outsmart epidemics
Sharon Terry
Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
Carolyn Jones
100 People: A World Portrait
Cheryl Steed
A transformative program for inmates with dementia
Tomás Ryan
Are your brain's memories ever actually lost?
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Christine McNab
Capturing the art of saving a life
Doug Rauch
A dignified solution for wasted food
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Anna Young
A maker revolution in health care
Roberta Ness
Reinventing our scientific future
Sam Vaughn
Ending violence with an empowering antidote
Robert Wachter
The dangers of a digital diagnosis
Sangeeta Bhatia
Designing tiny tools to find a tumor
Russ Altman
What really happens when you mix medications?
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
Vivek Murthy
The Surgeon General’s prescription of happiness
Bryant Terry
Stirring up political change from the kitchen
Shobhita Soor
Making insect farm-to-table dining trendy
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Diana Nyad
No shortcuts to victory
Nadine Burke Harris
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Eric Chen
Democratizing Science, One Question at a TIme
Marc Koska
Exposing a breaking point in the global chain of infection
Robin Guenther
Why hospitals are making us sick
Jen Hyatt
The Digital Greek Chorus: Using social networks to support mental and emotional health
Gypsy Sound Revolution
A tantalizing blend of global sounds
Mark Levatich
Giving medicine a jolt
Abraham Verghese
A linguistic prescription for ailing communication
Carla Pugh
Getting a sense for the surgical touch
Sophie de Oliveira Barata
Expressing identity with aesthetic prosthetics
Ted Kaptchuk
Placebo effects make good medicine better
Zachary Copfer
Portraits in a petri dish
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Mick Cornett
When is a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?
Amanda Bennett
When death is the enemy, what is victory?
Ramesh Raskar
How do we look at the future of health with both eyes?
Salvatore Iaconesi
Can a poet and a loving community make cancer a thing of beauty?
America Bracho
What happens when patients become leaders on the health team?
Jay Walker
A tour of shifting power throughout the ages
Peter Attia
Is the "obesity crisis" just a disguise for a deeper problem?
Amy Abernethy
Can patient data have a second life?
Harvey Fineberg
What is the U.S. health disadvantage?
Eli Beer
How did volunteers save more than 40,000 lives in 3 minutes (each) last year?
Michael Hebb
What happens when death is what's for dinner?
Sue Austin
When is a wheelchair an ultra-light submarine?
Zubin Damania
Are you nuts for prevention?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Virginia Breen and Elizabeth Bonker
When you finally find your voice, what do you most want to say?
Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn
If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?
Diane Kelly
When is research an exercise in fertility?
Todd Park
Faster, higher, smarter: the Olympics? No, Uncle Sam
Jon Cohen
Why don’t patients behave like consumers?
Gregory Petsko
How will the world handle 300 million Alzheimer’s patients?
Jacob Scott
Can we stop the imaginectomies?
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Seth Cooper
Why is my joystick smarter than your stethoscope?
Andrew Read
The bugs are getting smarter. Are we?
Gail McGovern
What happens when one person’s disease becomes everybody’s business?
Leslie Saxon
Can we get 8-billion heartbeats on speed dial?
Franziska Michor
When does 2+2 = life?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell
Can genetics be poetic?
Eythor Bender
What’s a good second step?
Yoav Medan
Is it still surgery if you don't cut anything?
Nate Ball
Got a good beat?
Regina Benjamin
When should Uncle Sam become Dr. Sam?
Joseph Desimone
Can Nanotechnology deliver mega-results?
Peter Agre
What turns a scientist into a good-will ambassador?
Ger Brophy
Can we tailor your treatment using deeper diagnostics?
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Mehmood Khan
Can your tongue inspire the creation of tasty, convenient nutrition?
David Kirchhoff
How can America lose weight?
Diana Nyad and Diana Nyad
Can you still swim with the sharks at 61?
Lee Stein
How did GenX inspire next-gen medical imaging?
TEDMED 2010
Rudolph Tanzi and Henry Mccance
How can silicon valley cure Alzheimer's disease?
Anna Barker
Can government cure cancer?
Mehmet Oz and Daphne Oz and Lisa Oz
How does a family work together on health?
Marc Koska
What's the point of a syringe that breaks?
Mark Hyman
When is a hacksaw a necessary medical device?
Nathan Myhrvold
What's behind my curtain?
Clifton Leaf
How do we change the war on cancer?
Sanjay Gupta
What did we learn in Haiti?
Ray Cronise
What's the 'coolest' way to lose weight?
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
Stephen Oesterle
Are we ready for 'wafer-sized' implantable medical devices?
Greg Lucier
When will the genomic revolution in clinical care occur?
Mike Barber
Can a 'Healthy Imagination' bring life saving innovation?
TEDMED 2009
Colin Angle
Will a robot care for my mom?
Eric Mead
When is misdiagnosis the goal?
Aubrey de Grey
Can we end aging?
Dean Kamen
Can a prosthesis be better than the real thing?
Ken Kamler
How does 'sheer will' help you survive?
Damien Bates
Where does replacement skin come from?
Jamie Heywood
What does open research and medicine look like?
Laura Ziskin
How did I 'Stand Up to Cancer'?
Greg Lucier
When your genes can talk, what will they say?
Barton Kamen
How many cancers are there?
Vic Strecher
What inspires true behavioral change?
Craig Venter
What could we do with synthetic life?
Daniel Kraft
Stem cells...hype, hope or reality?
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