Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields
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http://www.ted.com Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, which uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Still in its infancy -- and approved for only certain types of cancer -- the treatment comes with one big... Read more
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- -: Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields
January 31, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating Fields, which uses electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Still in its infancy -- and approved for only certain t...
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- -: Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish
January 24, 2012 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she talks about how to prepare mentally to achieve an extreme dream, and...
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- -: AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
January 3, 2012 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com For a full year, AJ Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shotglass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
December 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conf...
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- -: Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where ...
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- -: Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts
December 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, surgeon Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths. TEDTalks is a daily vid...
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- -: David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min
January 19, 2010 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: d...
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- -: Anthony Atala on growing organs
January 21, 2010 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "pri...
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- -: Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live
January 25, 2010 (about 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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- -: Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she hows how adversity -- in her case, being born without shinbones -- actually opens the door f...
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