From TED.com Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience — frightening, traumatic, costly — can turn out to be a priceless gift. Stacey Kramer has traveled the United States and the world helping to create names and brands for growing companies. Why you should listen Co-founder of Brandplay, a […]
What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?
– Rebecca Onie
July 20, 2014 By
From TED.com Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that — and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated […]
What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
– Ben Goldacre
July 17, 2014 By
From TED.com When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data […]
Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
– Mina Bissell”
July 14, 2014 By
From TED.com For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea — that a cancer cell doesn’t automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong. Mina Bissell studies how […]
Meet the future of cancer research
– Eva Vertes
July 7, 2014 By
From TED.com Eva Vertes — only 19 when she gave this talk — discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer’s. Eva Vertes is a microbiology prodigy. Her discovery, at age 17, of a compound that stops fruit-fly brain cells from dying was regarded as a step […]
Let’s talk about dying
– Peter Saul
July 3, 2014 By
From TED.com We can’t control if we’ll die, but we can “occupy death,” in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. He calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care — and suggests two questions for starting the conversation. (Filmed at TEDxNewy.) Over the past 35 years Peter Saul has been intimately […]
Bill Gates
April 24, 2014 By
[ PROFILES – ICONS ] an ongoing series on inspiring leaders “I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.” Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born […]
Health care should be a team sport
– Eric Dishman
March 31, 2014 By
From TED.com When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care — by putting the patient at the center […]
What’s wrong with what we eat
– Mark Bittman
March 30, 2014 By
From TED.com In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk. Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, […]
Killer American diet sweeping the planet
– Dean Ornish
March 28, 2014 By
From TED.com Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined — and it’s mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits will save lives. Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He’s […]
