What if “it’s the environment, stupid”?
Buettner talks about universal lifestyle behaviors that promote longevity, why they’re so hard to adopt in the U.S., and how one town undertook its own Blue Zone experiment, …
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Can we tailor your treatment using deeper diagnostics?
GE Healthcare’s Brophy shows how technology is leading the charge in personalized medicine, leading to more accurate disease characterization and surer decisions on when and how to treat.
Ger Brophy at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The GE Healthcare head of product development talks about how hi-tech diagnostics can help bring doctors to “personalized certainty” when treating patients.
How are technologies converging to drive medical progress?
Why are the study and practice of medicine still so over-compartmentalized and top-down? The Singularity University FutureMed guru talks about tech-driven trends that can redefine the field.
Daniel Kraft at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
Singularity University’s head of FutureMed answers questions about tech-driven trends that will remedy medicine’s “turf wars.”
Does it take a village to manage AIDS?
How do we get cutting-edge medicine to our neediest communities? Walgreens’ Chief Medical Officer speaks about how pharmacies can also be healthcare providers.
Why is 65 something to sing about?
Oh, yes, there will be beer in heaven! Tequila and cigars, too. The folk singer performs three memorable tunes about the bright side of death, the funny things …
A.J. Jacobs at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
The Year of Living Biblically author answers questions about the best habits he picked up during a year of trying to be “the healthiest man alive,” and those …
Healthy living – am I sick of it yet?
What’s harder than Living Biblically? Try following every bit of the latest health advice. A.J. Jacobs, author and human guinea pig, shares the results of his latest yearlong …
Eric Schadt at TEDMED 2011 – Q and A
Schadt takes questions on whether his research into complex biological systems sheds light on the “nature vs. nature” argument.