- -: Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
February 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. Jamie Oliver has been drawn to ...
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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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- -: Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see
February 25, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neurosci...
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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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- -: 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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- -: Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools
March 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the...
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- -: Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
March 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder...
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- -: Charlie Rose - David Brooks (11/21/11)
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)David Brooks of "The New York Times" on President Obama www.CharlieRose.com
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- -: TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Richard Barker - The Movement for Sustainable Healthcare
November 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Strategic Health Care Advisor, Dr. Richard Barker gives a TEDx Talk on the need to create a sustainable healthcare system with the technology and information we already have.
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- -: Governor Kaine on Healthcare on MSNBC
July 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)July 20, 2009
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