- -: Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live
January 25, 2010 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctor...
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- -: Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired
February 2, 2010 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to c...
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- -: Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
February 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds. TEDTalks is a daily video podc...
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- -: Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe
March 16, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-base...
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- -: Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational
April 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations -- from junkies in...
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- -: Mother and daughter doctor-heroes: Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed
February 9, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com They've been called the "saints of Somalia." Doctors Hawa Abdi and Deqo Mohamed talk about their medical clinic in Somalia, where -- in the face of civil war and open oppression of women -- they've built a hospital, a school and a community of peace. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch
September 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Authors@Google: Dev Patnaik
January 21, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Dev Patnaik visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy." This event took place on January 16, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more info, please visit http://www.wiredtocare.com/ Top ...
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- -: Ellen's Office Goes Green!
April 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Today is Earth Day, so Ellen created a helpful PSA to share how she has convinced the office to conserve.
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- -: Kym Douglas Knows How to Make You Look Great!
August 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)She was here to show Ellen some handy tricks with things you have around the house. She even brought a prop that Ellen thought was fake. Nope. That's real vodka in there, Ellen!
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