- -: 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 Mead: The magic of the placebo
March 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is ...
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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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- -: Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible story of the climbers' battle against extreme conditions and uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of ...
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- -: Charity Tillemann-Dick: After a lung transplant, an aria
January 18, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant -- and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing....
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- -: Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics
March 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what's goi...
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- -: Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDME...
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Eric Topol: The Wireless Future of Medicine
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this highly optimistic speech, Cardiologist Eric Topol tells us about the wireless future of Medicine. He gives us examples of how current devices help with different diseases. He also cites the coming medical technologies that will completely give new meaning to the term "Modern Medicine".
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