Nate Ball at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The overwhelming audience response to one of zaniest live presentations — and the only one involving beatboxing — at TEDMED2011.
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David Kirchhoff at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The Weight Watchers CEO answers questions on what works to change health behaviors; useful health metrics; and forecasting weight-related diseases.
How can America lose weight?
The CEO of Weight Watchers says America’s obesity crisis isn’t about people eating too much; it’s about our “obesogenic” environment. Beating it will involve lots of collective willpower.
Is it still surgery if you don’t cut anything?
Can non-invasive surgery ever become the norm? Medan shows how an MR guided, focused ultrasound technique works instead, and its potential for faster recovery times and new cures.
Yoav Medan at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
Medan answers audience questions about an FDA-approved non-invasive surgical technique, and what’s next for knife-free surgery
Gabor Forgacs at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The biological physicist answers questions about a new way of “printing” cells for tissue engineering, and its uses for clinical research and, potentially, in humans.
Are you ready for tissues you can “print on demand”?
What if we could simply “print” new organs for use in clinical trials? Gabor Forgacs from Organovo tells us about a radical new approach to tissue engineering.
Regina Benjamin at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The TEDMED audience asks the U.S. Surgeon General about the role of government in promoting preventive health care, among other issues.
When should Uncle Sam become Dr. Sam?
The U.S. Surgeon General talks about how preventive health care can help fight leading causes of death, and why it’s so hard for doctors to provide it.
What if we printed our food?
As humans continue to multiply, can we feed ourselves using meat created with a 3D bioprinting process? In the first demonstration of its kind, Gabor Forgacs heats and …