Diana Nyad at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The endurance swimmer on whether her failed attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida at age 62 was an athletic defeat — or a personal victory.
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Will a song a day keep the doctor away?
The “song a day guy” performs number 1,030, which also happens to be the TEDMED 2011 theme song, with help from a rowdy audience.
Can we beat cancer by redefining it?
We may not wholly understand complex diseases, but we can stop them, Agus says, with a preventive approach boosted by genomics, technology and a hard look at existing …
Michael Rosenblatt at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The Merck CMO answers questions about how collaboration between industry, patients and society can address the huge global issue of maternal mortality.
How can we help the developing world get healthier?
At current rates, millions of women will die giving birth over the next decade, with long-lasting consequences. Solutions are straightforward and low-tech, but demand that we collaborate.
Tim O’Reilly at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
O’Reilly fields questions about why tech innovation is booming in the health and medical fields, and how open-source government and personal tech hacking contributes.
What can the healthcare industry learn from Tech Titans?
The tech publisher discusses what healthcare can borrow from Silicon Valley titans, from better product development to how to work crowdsourcing, wearable tech, and even hacking to advantage.
How did GenX inspire next-gen medical imaging?
Stein talks about how his son’s 150-foot fall led to a unique and urgent interdisciplinary medical collaboration, leading to accelerated breakthroughs in medical imaging.
Anyone can be a revolutionary.
There’s no special training to be a revolutionary; all it takes is to stand your ground. The spoken-word artists riff on what inspires leaders to make great changes …
We DID start the fire.
Laugh more, stretch, quiet the mind. The spoken-word artists do an inspiring, fiery riff on how to get and stay healthy, and how our own good health inspires …