- -: TEDxAmericasFinestCity - Dr. Mimi Guarneri - Shifting the Healthcare Paradigm
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Changing reactive healthcare to proactive healthcare. Dr. Mimi Guarneri Founder / Medical Director -- Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine and Chair -- Bravewell Clinical Network for Integrative Medicine Board-certified in cardiology, internal medicine, nuclear cardiology and holistic medici...
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- -: Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda
April 5, 2007 (about 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to gi...
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- -: Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end
October 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performan...
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- -: Alan Russell: Why can't we grow new body parts?
April 14, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that "speaks the body's language" has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells can rebuild ...
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- -: Ernest Madu: Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
April 21, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world. Listen for some eye-openin...
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- -: Seyi Oyesola: Health care off the grid
May 28, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Dr. Seyi Oyesola helped develop the "Hospital in a Box" to solve a few of the problems plaguing health care on the African continent -- distance between doctors, spotty power, lack of supplies. But solving the health crisis in Africa will take more.
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- -: Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
October 20, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.
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- -: Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class
December 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a re-think of all human services. TEDTalks is a daily video pod...
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- -: Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption
December 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, elim...
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- -: David Agus: A new strategy in the war against cancer
February 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Traditionally, David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to treat and analyze the whole body.
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