What would you decide if 311 million lives depended on it?
What is the FDA doing to streamline regulation and speed innovations to market? Larry Brilliant of the Skoll Global Threats Fund interviews Peggy Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA.
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How will the world handle 300 million Alzheimer’s patients?
Alzheimer’s may strike 100 million people by 2050. Gregory Petsko, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University, asks: We know our population is aging. What can …
Gregory Petsko – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Gregory Petsko, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University, answers questions about the coming epidemic of neurological illnesses due to our aging population.
Who are “Me, Myself, and Us?”
Not all microbes are pathogens. As Jonathan Eisen of the University of California of Davis points out, the health of our microbiome is vital to protecting us from …
Jonathan Eisen – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Jonathan Eisen of the University of California of Davis answers questions about the human ecosystem, which includes a microbial community that operates as a virtual organ.
Do your proteins have their own social network?
Networks guru and author Albert-László Barabási says diseases are the results of system breakdowns within the body, and mapping intracellular protein networks will help us discover cures.
War on cancer, year 40: who’s winning?
Some two-thirds of cancer are caused by lifestyle choices, says Otis Brawley, chief medical offer of the American Cancer Society. But routine screening, which causes over-diagnosing, is not …
Otis Brawley – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, answers questions about cancer overtreatment and how lifestyle choices may cause cancer – even decades later.
Albert-László Barabási – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Author Albert-László Barabási answers questions on how mapping cellular protein reactions can help us to discover how diseases work.
Marc Triola & John Qualter – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Triola, of the New York University School of Medicine, and Qualter of BioDigital systems answer audience questions about their BioDigital human 3D virtual anatomy model.