Placebo effects make good medicine better
Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, directs the Program in Placebo Studies, Healing and Therapeutic Encounter. In his talk, he upends many assumptions about what …
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Portraits in a petri dish
At TEDMED 2014, microbiologist and artist Zachary Copfer tells delightful stories about how bacteria became his artistic medium of choice.
Seeing the doctor’s visit through a different lens
Elliot Swart directs our focus to telemedicine and its potential to improve upon, and in some cases replace, current diagnostic procedures.
Raising the volume of voice donations
Rupal Patel, founder of VocalID, describes how she is developing a technology that creates personalized, enhanced voices for the speech impaired.
Moving with nature’s rhythm
Art of Motion Dance Theatre (AOMDT) – known for using dance to explore body and mind as creative instruments – performs a piece celebrating the divinity of nature.
Why hospitals are making us sick
Robin Guenther – Principal at global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will and a Senior Advisor to “Health Care Without Harm” – explores some unusual connections between health and …
Democratizing Science, One Question at a TIme
In his TEDMED 2014 talk, college freshman Eric Chen talks about how, in the age of the internet, each one of us has the opportunity to make fascinating …
A doctor’s office that can’t be overcrowded
Jared Heyman, entrepreneur and founder of CrowdMed, reveals how crowd wisdom can help solve even the most elusive medical mysteries.
One more reason to get a good night’s sleep
At TEDMED 2014, neuroscientist Jeff Iliff illuminates a newly discovered, critical function of the brain during sleep, a natural cleansing system that keeps toxic proteins at bay.
Expressing identity with aesthetic prosthetics
Sophie de Oliveira Barata, founder of The Alternative Limb Project, gives us a glimpse into her wildly creative process of designing imaginative, personalized prosthetics.