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TEDMED 2020
Sandro Galea
How health is threatened by hate
Joseph Shin
How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system
Jyoti Sharma
How small collective actions create a water secure world
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Anne Marie Albano
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
April Zeoli
The frightening frequency of family mass shootings
Frederick Streeter Barrett
The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia
Anupam B. Jena
The profound difference between seeing and looking
Yasmin Hurd
Could CBD help opioid users overcome addiction?
Laurie Hallmark
Advocating for people with serious mental illness
Shekinah Elmore
The courage to live with radical uncertainty
Kevin Toolis
Our existential flight from death - and wisdom on connecting to grief
Amit Choudhary
The power of CRISPR Cas9 comes with great responsibility
TEDMED 2018
Niobe Way
Why "boys will be boys" is a myth—and a harmful one at that
Marilène Oliver
The art and science of our digital selves
Amanda Sturgeon
Using biophilic design to heal body, mind, and soul
Queen Dube
How a neonatal health innovator saves lives in Malawi
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Christine Nieves
Why community is our best chance for survival—a lesson post-Hurricane Maria
Tim Lu
Biological engineering—the nexus between computer programming and medicine
David Asch
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions
Adam Waytz
Why do whistleblowers risk speaking out?
Sherry Johnson
My fight to end child marriage in America
Lydia Bourouiba
How diseases and epidemics move through a breath of air
Yoko K. Sen
How one musician is reimagining hospital sounds
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Dr. Farida
A Syrian OB/GYN perseveres amidst conflict
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Lennie Sender
The promise and limits of cancer immunotherapy
Betty Diamond
What happens when the immune system goes rogue?
Peter Bach
Changing the drug pricing game
Chera Kowalski
The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
Agnes Binagwaho
Lessons from Rwanda's journey to an equitable health system
Sian Leah Beilock
Why we choke under pressure—and how to avoid it
Mary Herbert
A groundbreaking way to stop mitochondrial disease
Matt King
What social media looks like when you can’t see
James Hamblin
Talking simply, not simplistically, about health
John Amory
How a male contraceptive pill could work
TEDMED 2016: What If
Susie Baldwin
Intervention in human trafficking through health care
Nir Barzilai
Can we grow older without growing sicker?
Ketki Karanam
Personalizing the therapeutic effects of music
Elizabeth Letourneau
Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable
Sue Klebold
My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story.
Lucy Kalanithi
What makes life worth living in the face of death
Sheila Nirenberg
What if robots could process visual information the way humans do?
Sharon Terry
Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
Partho Sengupta
Using holography to reshape cardiology
Ryan Green and Dan Visconti
Curing ideological cancers with video games
Ted Meyer
A portrait of the patient experience
Cheryl Steed
A transformative program for inmates with dementia
Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud
A young poet tells the story of Darfur
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Anna Young
A maker revolution in health care
Russ Altman
What really happens when you mix medications?
Reinvigorating anatomy through art
Raj Patel
The secret ingredient for ending world hunger
Vivienne Ming
The Paradox of Incentive Insensitivity
Shobhita Soor
Making insect farm-to-table dining trendy
Anne Wojcicki
Taking health into our own hands
Todd Coleman
A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
Holly Morris
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone
Mary Bassett
Why your doctor should care about social justice
Pamela Wible
Why doctors kill themselves
Peter Janicki
Turning waste to wealth
Elizabeth Iorns
Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
E. Bimla Schwarz
How mothers can nurse themselves healthy
Resa Lewiss
How an old technology became a disruptive innovation
Kayt Sukel
Eliminating penalties for playing out of bounds
Marc Koska
Exposing a breaking point in the global chain of infection
Jeff Karp
Insight outside: harnessing nature’s secrets
Josh Stein
It's smart to design simple
Amy McGuire
There is no genome for the human spirit
Cathy Ladman
Have you heard the one about the comic with anorexia?
Rupal Patel
Raising the volume of voice donations
Daniel Webster
How better policy will trigger fewer gun deaths
Heather Raffo
The liberty in loving like you cannot breathe
Drew Lakatos
Deploying airbag tech to protect the pedestrian
Mark Levatich
Giving medicine a jolt
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Jay Walker
The evolution of humanity's understanding of life and death
Sue Austin
When is a wheelchair an ultra-light submarine?
Jonathan Bush
For Profit & Non-Profits: Can this marriage be saved?
John Maeda
How can design principles lead to more discovery and better treatment?
Peter Aguero and Sara Peters
If there is no cure, can we opt for a rescue?
Rafael Yuste
When should science shoot for the moon?
Christopher J.L. Murray
What does a $100 million public health data revolution look like?
Laura Deming
How can science and business team up for the long (health) haul?
Mariano Vazquez
How do I compute the body electric?
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Attention stressed-out docs: Can the consumer be the "cavalry" that rescues you?
John Kheir
Why couldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?
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?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Howard Shapiro
What is the source of all life?
Lisa Nilsson
Are you ready for a new slice of reality?
Ben Goldacre
Where’s the rest of the data iceberg?
Peggy Hamburg and Larry Brilliant
What would you decide if 311 million lives depended on it?
Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn
If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?
Jonathan Eisen
Who are “Me, Myself and Us?”
Barbara Bass
What is the surgeon’s flight simulator?
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Ivan Oransky
Is the “disease model” sick – or just exhausted?
Marc Triola and John Qualter
Can medical school be a “Fantastic Voyage?”
Ed Gavagan
Can a stitch in time save nine?
Ali Ansary
So technology is a crutch…you got a problem with that?
Dan Perry
Do cells have a mid-life crisis?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
David Agus
Can we beat cancer by redefining it?
Gabor Forgacs
Are you ready for tissues you can "print on demand"?
Charles Limb
What if we couldn’t hear music?
Michael Rosenblatt
How can we help the developing world get healthier?
Diana Nyad and Diana Nyad
Can you still swim with the sharks at 61?
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Charles Pell
What does the operating room of the future look like?
Aneesh Chopra and Farzad Mostashari
What happens if government shares health data openly?
Regina Benjamin
When should Uncle Sam become Dr. Sam?
Bill Doyle
How many engineers does it take to fight cancer?
Nate Ball
Got a good beat?
Quyen Nguyen
Have you got that inner glow?
Freda Lewis-Hall
Where will the next medical breakthroughs come from?
TEDMED 2010
Walter S. Mossberg
Can the iPad change medicine?
Emlyn Koster
What can a 12 year-old learn from live surgery?
Clifton Leaf
How do we change the war on cancer?
Mike Barber
Can a 'Healthy Imagination' bring life saving innovation?
John Mackey
How do you encourage health and wellness?
Jay Walker
Imagination Talks: The First Medical Book
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
David Agus
What do proteomics have to do with cancer survival?
Thomas Goetz
How can patients make better healthcare decisions?
Shaf Keshavjee
Can a human lung breathe outside the human body?
Bruce Feiler
How did a rare disease create the Council of Dads?
Alex Berenstein
What can a radish irrigation field teach us about surgery?
Rudolph Tanzi and Henry Mccance
How can silicon valley cure Alzheimer's disease?
TEDMED 2009
Aimee Mullins
How tall do I want to be today?
David Agus
Can a computer analyze proteins as well as the human body?
David Blaine
Why will I talk for only 17min 4.4 seconds?
Anne Wojcicki
Is your DNA your destiny?
Eric Silfen
How do we combine biomedical data in new ways?
Eric Dishman
Can the way you answer your phone predict disease?
Daniel Kraft
Stem cells...hype, hope or reality?
Jamie Heywood
What does open research and medicine look like?
Steve W. Cole
Can a video game cure cancer?
Aubrey de Grey
Can we end aging?
Jill Sobule
How about a medical melody?
Donna Karan
What happens when east meets west?
Dean Kamen
Can a prosthesis be better than the real thing?
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