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TEDMED 2020
Katherine Eban
A dose of reality about generic drugs
Cheryl King
A simple, powerful way to help prevent teen suicide
Beatie Wolfe
How music can rescue and restore our humanity
Peter Piot
Q&A with Peter Piot about COVID-19
Anne Marie Albano
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
Suchi Saria
Bringing AI to the bedside
Laurie Hallmark
Advocating for people with serious mental illness
Frederick Streeter Barrett
The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia
Anne Basting
How to meaningfully reconnect with those who have dementia
Michel Maharbiz
Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs
Jyoti Sharma
How small collective actions create a water secure world
Ralph Nader
What it takes to create social change against all odds
Homer Venters
Exposing the deadly health risks of incarceration
TEDMED 2018
Carl June
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer
sj Miller
Why gender identity justice matters for everyone
Christine Nieves
Why community is our best chance for survival—a lesson post-Hurricane Maria
Niobe Way
Why "boys will be boys" is a myth—and a harmful one at that
Daniel Streicker
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
Lydia Bourouiba
How diseases and epidemics move through a breath of air
Adam Waytz
Why do whistleblowers risk speaking out?
Gerardo Reyes Chavez and Greg Asbed
How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution
Marilène Oliver
The art and science of our digital selves
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
Denisse Rojas Marquez
No longer afraid: an undocumented immigrant's experience in American health care
Kate Bowler
"Everything happens for a reason" — and other lies I've loved
TEDMED 2017: Limitless
Howard Stevenson
How to resolve racially stressful situations
Matt King
What social media looks like when you can’t see
Frans de Waal
The surprising science of alpha males
James Hamblin
Talking simply, not simplistically, about health
Shai Shen-Orr
Hey Doc, how's my immune system doing?
Steven McCarroll
How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain
Dan Knights
How we study the microbes living in your gut
Sandy Hassink
The community’s role in the childhood obesity epidemic
Jennifer Chenoweth
Mapping the emotional topography of a community
Mark Tyndall
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
Camila Ventura
Caregiving at the epicenter of the Zika epidemic
Lennie Sender
The promise and limits of cancer immunotherapy
Guo-li Ming
How organoids helped unravel the mystery of the Zika virus
TEDMED 2016: What If
Johannes Haushofer
The psychological consequences of poverty
Jay Walker
The power of asking "what if?"
David Casarett
A doctor's case for medical marijuana
Sharon Terry
Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
Bruce Schneier
Who controls your medical data?
David R. Williams
How racism makes us sick
Carolyn Jones
100 People: A World Portrait
Elizabeth Letourneau
Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable
Charles Chiu
Combating infectious diseases with next-generation sequencing
Sue Klebold
My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
Gunhild Stordalen
A recipe for a healthier planet
Ted Meyer
A portrait of the patient experience
James Gordon
Fulfilling trauma's hidden promise
TEDMED 2015: Breaking Through
Hemai Parthasarathy
How entrepreneurship can amplify scientific impact
Elizabeth Iorns
Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
Kevin Tracey
How electricity could replace your medications
Laura Schmidt
Why we can't stop eating unhealthy foods
Doug Rauch
A dignified solution for wasted food
Jennifer Stellar
The positive effects of positive emotions
Dilip Jeste
Seeking wisdom in graying matter
Kenneth Nealson
A change in the current of microbiology
Bryant Terry
Stirring up political change from the kitchen
Suzie Brown
A concert of melody and medicine
Laurie Rubin
Foresight in hindsight: Blindly facing the future
Peter Janicki
Turning waste to wealth
Chris Mason
Discovering and designing genomes for Earth, Mars, and beyond
TEDMED 2014: Unlocking Imagination
Eric Chen
Democratizing Science, One Question at a TIme
Marc Koska
Exposing a breaking point in the global chain of infection
Howard Rose
Virtual gaming with real health outcomes
Thomas Goetz
An "aha" moment measured in decades
Ram Sahasranam
Why the doctor can't see you now
Bob Carey
Don't take life tutu seriously
Jen Hyatt
The Digital Greek Chorus: Using social networks to support mental and emotional health
John La Puma
Culinary Medicine in Action
Marc Abrahams
A science award that makes you laugh, then think
Brian Primack
Staying healthy might be all fun and games
Kitra Cahana
My father, locked in his body but soaring free
Peggy Battin
Choosing the least worst death
E. Bimla Schwarz
How mothers can nurse themselves healthy
TEDMED 2013: Unexpected Connections
Roni Zeiger
Who is the real medical expert?
Steve Gullans
When is "safe dosing" a dangerous prescription?
Larry Smarr
Can you coordinate the dance of your body's 100 trillion microorganisms?
Jay Walker
Studying an historically accelerating pace of change
Max Little
What's the new way to ask big questions in science?
Isaac Kohane
How can every clinical visit be used to advance medical science?
Peter Aguero and Sara Peters
If there is no cure, can we opt for a rescue?
Laura Deming
How can science and business team up for the long (health) haul?
Christopher J.L. Murray
What does a $100 million public health data revolution look like?
Mick Cornett
When is a Lose-Lose a Win-Win?
Kelli Swazey
What happens when we welcome death in defining life?
Deborah Estrin
What happens when each patient becomes their own "universe" of unique medical data?
John Kheir
Why couldn't we just have given her intravenous oxygen?
TEDMED 2012: The Future of Health and Medicine
Peggy Hamburg and Larry Brilliant
What would you decide if 311 million lives depended on it?
Mary (Missy) Cummings
Can a "computer co-pilot" help anyone be a surgeon?
Jay Walker
Ever wonder what happens to an astronaut's heart rate as he lands on the moon for the first time?
Lynda Chin
Can medical industry and medical research live happily ever after?
Ed Gavagan
Can a stitch in time save nine?
David Icke
Can I wear my computer like a second skin?
Seth Cooper
Why is my joystick smarter than your stethoscope?
Reisa Sperling
Can we treat Alzheimers 20 years early?
Sandeep Kishore
You say you want a revolution?
Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn
If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?
Todd Park
Faster, higher, smarter: the Olympics? No, Uncle Sam
Lisa Nilsson
Are you ready for a new slice of reality?
Dan Perry
Do cells have a mid-life crisis?
TEDMED 2011: Connect. Understand. Inspire.
Juan Enriquez
What is medicine’s missing measurement?
Catherine Mohr
What is the future of intervention?
Diana Nyad and Diana Nyad
Can you still swim with the sharks at 61?
Dan Buettner
What if "it's the environment, stupid"?
Eythor Bender
What’s a good second step?
Michael Rosenblatt
How can we help the developing world get healthier?
Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell
Can genetics be poetic?
Mehmood Khan
Can your tongue inspire the creation of tasty, convenient nutrition?
Sheila Nirenberg
Can we speak the language of the brain?
Bill Doyle
How many engineers does it take to fight cancer?
Rick Smolan
What is the power to heal?
Barton Kamen
What happens when doctors become patients?
Chris Toumazou
When will wireless medicine change healthcare?
TEDMED 2010
Alexandra Drane
What five questions can save your life or end it?
Marc Koska
What's the point of a syringe that breaks?
Craig Fugate
How do you choose between fast, perfect and cheap in response to disasters?
Scott Parazynski
Your rocket is ready, but is your body 'go for launch?'
Harold Schmitz
What does pet food have to do with human health?
Sherwin B. Nuland
Has technology changed a physician's values?
John Mackey
How do you encourage health and wellness?
Emlyn Koster
What can a 12 year-old learn from live surgery?
A.J. Jacobs
What's in a year of living healthy?
Nathan Myhrvold
What's behind my curtain?
Dean Kamen
What's behind my curtain?
Clifton Leaf
How do we change the war on cancer?
Jay Walker
Imagination Talks: The First Medical Book
TEDMED 2009
Donna Karan
What happens when east meets west?
Peter Menzel & Faith D'Alusio
What does the world eat?
Jamie Heywood
What does open research and medicine look like?
Sekou Andrews
Who are you?
Anthony Atala
Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?
Daniel Kraft
Stem cells...hype, hope or reality?
Steve W. Cole
Can a video game cure cancer?
Laura Ziskin
How did I 'Stand Up to Cancer'?
Greg Lucier
When your genes can talk, what will they say?
Martha Stewart
How do we transform care for the elderly?
Vic Strecher
What inspires true behavioral change?
David Blaine
Why will I talk for only 17min 4.4 seconds?
Jill Sobule
How about a medical melody?
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