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TEDMED 2020
Kevin Toolis
Our existential flight from death - and wisdom on connecting to grief
Jonathan Gruber
What's next for healthcare reform
Homer Venters
Exposing the deadly health risks of incarceration
Heidi Larson
Rumors, trust, and vaccines
Frederick Streeter Barrett
The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia
Gokul Upadhyayula
The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D
Anne Marie Albano
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
Anupam B. Jena
The profound difference between seeing and looking
Thijs Biersteker
Bringing facts to life through ecological art
Katherine Eban
A dose of reality about generic drugs
Sandro Galea
How health is threatened by hate
Peter Piot
Q&A with Peter Piot about COVID-19
Laurie Hallmark
Advocating for people with serious mental illness
TEDMED 2018
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Rabiaa El Garani
Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS
Tim Lu
Biological engineering—the nexus between computer programming and medicine
Elizabeth Howell
How we can improve maternal healthcare - before, during and after pregnancy
Carl June
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer
Marilène Oliver
The art and science of our digital selves
Mitchell H. Katz
What the US health care system assumes about you
Jason Shepherd
How an ancient virus spread the ability to remember
Jerome M. Adams
The 20th U.S. Surgeon General’s perspectives on the nation’s biggest health issues
Queen Dube
How a neonatal health innovator saves lives in Malawi
Dikembe Mutombo
How a humanitarian turned NBA All-Star is changing healthcare in his homeland of the DRC
Irene Papanicolas
Why your healthcare costs so much
Sarkis Mazmanian
Why science says to listen to your gut
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Linda B. Rosenthal
Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one?
Greg Corrado
How doctors can help AI to revolutionize medicine
Betty Diamond
What happens when the immune system goes rogue?
Meg Gaines
Why partnership is at the core of effective healthcare
Mary Herbert
A groundbreaking way to stop mitochondrial disease
Chera Kowalski
The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Guo-li Ming
How organoids helped unravel the mystery of the Zika virus
Bill Frist
Delivering peace through global health policy
John Amory
How a male contraceptive pill could work
Jim Johnson
Lessons learned from the center of America’s opioid epidemic
Keenan Wyrobek
Engineering a new mission for drones
Howard Stevenson
How to resolve racially stressful situations
TEDMED 2016: What If
Ted Meyer
A portrait of the patient experience
Larissa MacFarquhar
Understanding extreme altruism
Sue Klebold
My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
Carolyn Jones
A tribute to nurses
Sharon Terry
Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
Charles Chiu
Combating infectious diseases with next-generation sequencing
Richard Kogan
Can music heal what meds can't?
Jeremy Farrar
How we can outsmart epidemics
David Casarett
A doctor's case for medical marijuana
Lloyd Pendleton
The Housing First approach to homelessness
Alia Crum
Harnessing the power of placebos
Kaitlyn Hova
Seeing song through the ears of a synesthete
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Thomas Lee
Rediscovering health care's original goal: Reducing suffering
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
Mary Bassett
Why your doctor should care about social justice
Vivek Murthy
The Surgeon General’s prescription of happiness
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Todd Coleman
A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
Laura Schmidt
Why we can't stop eating unhealthy foods
Elizabeth Iorns
Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
Melissa Walker
Unmasking the invisible wounds of war
Dilip Jeste
Seeking wisdom in graying matter
Raj Patel
The secret ingredient for ending world hunger
Daniel Bergner
Stripping away the blinders of social sexual norms
Robert Wachter
The dangers of a digital diagnosis
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Diana Nyad
No shortcuts to victory
Gail Reed
Where to train the world's doctors? Cuba.
Stephen Goldner
Taking the "search" out of clinical research
Daniel Kohane
Smart vehicles for safer medications
Erica Frank
Eliminating the barriers to global medical education
E. Bimla Schwarz
How mothers can nurse themselves healthy
Kitra Cahana
My father, locked in his body but soaring free
Gary Conkright
This just in: Your personalized health forecast
NANDA
This is what imagination sounds like
Robin Guenther
Why hospitals are making us sick
Ram Sahasranam
Why the doctor can't see you now
Nadine Burke Harris
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
John La Puma
Culinary Medicine in Action
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Sally Okun
Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?
Pritpal S Tamber
What's the human factor that lets innovation succeed?
Deborah Estrin
What happens when each patient becomes their own "universe" of unique medical data?
Michael Hebb
What happens when death is what's for dinner?
Jay Walker
Studying an historically accelerating pace of change
Steve Gullans
When is "safe dosing" a dangerous prescription?
Victor Wang
How can helping you help me?
Ashley Atkinson
Are we ready for a Declaration of Food Interdependence?
Roni Zeiger
Who is the real medical expert?
Sue Austin
When is a wheelchair an ultra-light submarine?
Gary Slutkin
What if we treated violence like a contagious disease?
Harvey Fineberg
What is the U.S. health disadvantage?
Zubin Damania
Are you nuts for prevention?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Joel Salatin
Can real food from real farms lead to real health?
Thomas Frieden
What do you do when your best shot falls short?
Reisa Sperling
Can we treat Alzheimers 20 years early?
Otis Brawley
War on cancer, year 40: who’s winning?
David Icke
Can I wear my computer like a second skin?
Howard Shapiro
What is the source of all life?
Leslie Saxon
Can we get 8-billion heartbeats on speed dial?
Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece
Can you still hang 10 when you're pushing 40?
Frances Arnold
How can we design new DNA?
Mark Hyman
If we can’t cure the patient, can the community do it?
Bryan Stevenson
Is it healthy for America's identity to keep our eyes closed?
Teresa Monachino
If healthcare is really sick care, do I need a "sicktionary"?
Barbara Bass
What is the surgeon’s flight simulator?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Dan Buettner
What if "it's the environment, stupid"?
Eythor Bender
What’s a good second step?
Michael Graves
How could we design tomorrow's hospitals?
Catherine Mohr
What is the future of intervention?
Paul Stamets
Is the world ready for a Medical Mushroom Mystery Tour?
Mehmood Khan
Can your tongue inspire the creation of tasty, convenient nutrition?
A.J. Jacobs
Healthy living - am I sick of it yet?
Chris Toumazou
When will wireless medicine change healthcare?
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Tim O'Reilly
What can the healthcare industry learn from Tech Titans?
Diana Nyad and Diana Nyad
Can you still swim with the sharks at 61?
Barton Kamen
What happens when doctors become patients?
Freda Lewis-Hall
Where will the next medical breakthroughs come from?
TEDMED 2010
Emlyn Koster
What can a 12 year-old learn from live surgery?
Harold Schmitz
What does pet food have to do with human health?
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
A.J. Jacobs
What's in a year of living healthy?
Anita Goel
How will nanotechnology be used in the body?
Rudolph Tanzi and Henry Mccance
How can silicon valley cure Alzheimer's disease?
George Church
What's next for personal genomics?
Sanjay Gupta
What did we learn in Haiti?
Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne and Nathaniel Pearson
What will the unveiling of a full Osbourne genome reveal?
Peter Daszak
What diseases come from animals?
Bruce Feiler
How did a rare disease create the Council of Dads?
Mehmet Oz and Daphne Oz and Lisa Oz
How does a family work together on health?
Anna Barker
Can government cure cancer?
TEDMED 2009
Sanjay Gupta
Can media deliver accurate & trusted medical information?
Barton Kamen
How many cancers are there?
Eric Topol
How do genetics and wireless medicine prevent disease?
Laura Ziskin
How did I 'Stand Up to Cancer'?
Paul Jacobs
What does a wireless band-aid do?
Eric Silfen
How do we combine biomedical data in new ways?
John E. Abele
How does true collaboration foster better health care?
Steve W. Cole
Can a video game cure cancer?
Dean Kamen
Can a prosthesis be better than the real thing?
Vic Strecher
What inspires true behavioral change?
Dean Ornish
Can you, yourself, change your genes?
Anthony Atala
Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?
Donna Karan
What happens when east meets west?
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