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How technology can empower patients, with 4 home tests on your …

WebHow technology can empower patients, including 4 diagnostic tools for your iPhone. Eric Dishman is used to thinking about how technology can transform the world of health care. As an Intel Fellow and general manager of the company’s Health Strategy & Solutions Group, his job is all about finding innovative new approaches to healthcare.

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Eye phone: How a TED Fellow’s new app could help restore sight …

WebTo bridge this gap, London-based opthalmologist Andrew Bastawrous created Peek — an app and adapter that turn a smartphone into a comprehensive, easy-to-use, accurate eye-exam tool. Peek makes eye tests affordable and easy to administer, bypassing the need for expensive, fragile equipment. (Watch his TED Talk, “ Get your …

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3 reasons why women are still fighting for equal healthcare

WebThe same tragic disparity between what we need to know for better health outcomes and what is fully understood as life and death factors was the subject of Linda Villarosa’s recent cover story in the New York Times Magazine titled “Why America’s Black M others and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis.” In her incredible article, she noted …

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Health TED Blog

WebBy Kate Torgovnick May. on Mar 5, 2019. More than a billion people in the world lack access to basic health care. It’s a hard truth that Raj Panjabi pointed to as he accepted the TED Prize in 2017 — globally, there’s a shortage of accredited health workers, and many people living in remote areas are all but cut off from care.

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Tackling sickness at its source: an interview with Rishi Manchanda

WebTackling sickness at its source: An interview with TED Book author Rishi Manchanda. Rishi Manchanda answers questions about the new TED Book “The Upstream Doctors,” which looks at the environmental and social factors that play a big part in individual health. We all think we understand the formula for keeping healthy — eat right, exercise

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Our understanding of obesity and diabetes may be wrong: A Q&A …

WebPeter Attia gives a talk that brought the house down at TEDMED 2013. Surgeon Peter Attia sees a disconcerting paradox at work when it comes to our health: while people are talking about eating healthily and exercising perhaps more than ever, we’re seeing no reduction in the rates of obesity and diabetes. As it stands, more than 8% of

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The sleep and mental health connection: A Q&A with Russell …

WebThe data are just extraordinary. We’re years away from it yet but now, for the first time, we have a target that we didn’t have before. health mental health neuroscience Q&A Russell Foster sleep TEDGlobal 2013. Circadian neuroscientist Russell Foster shares his latest work, which examines the disordered sleep cycles of those with mental

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9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity

Web9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity. Posted by: Kate Torgovnick May. April 24, 2013 at 4:28 pm EDT. Julian Treasure takes the stage at TEDGlobal 2009, sharing the shocking fact that — when you can hear others talking in an open office — productivity dips by 66%. Julian Treasure cares very deeply for your ears.

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Stress as a positive: Recent research that suggests it has benefits

WebThe evidence suggests that giving to others significantly reduces stress-induced mortality. Further reading: “Giving to others and the association between stress and mortality”. Moderate stress can lead to cell growth in the brain’s learning centers. The study: In this 2013 study out of University of California, Berkeley, adult rats were

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The upside of stress: Kelly McGonigal at TEDGlobal 2013

WebPoor stressed lambs at TEDGlobal! But now, a confession. “My fear is that something I’ve been teaching for the past ten years has been doing more harm than good,” says McGonigal. “Basically, I’ve turned stress into the enemy. But I’ve changed my mind about stress, and today I want to change yours.”. She cites the 2012 study that

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How do we fix medicine

WebThere are 4000 medical and surgical procedures, 6000 drugs he is legally allowed to prescribe — and that’s the new problem. We’re starting, Gawande argues, to realize, as doctors, “that we can’t do it all.”. Here’s some data. In 1970, the number of doctors a patient at a hospital saw, on average, was 2. By the end of the 20th

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Raj Panjabi TED Blog

WebMore than a billion people in the world lack access to basic health care. It’s a hard truth that Raj Panjabi pointed to as he accepted the TED Prize in 2017 — globally, there’s a shortage of accredited health workers, and many people living in remote areas are all but cut off from care.

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6 great things microbes do for us TED Blog

Web4. Microbes keep us slim. Microbes play an important role in our body shape by helping us digest and ferment foods, as well as by producing chemicals that shape our metabolic rates. Eisen explains, “It seems that disturbances in our microbial community may be one of the factors leading to an increase in obesity.”. 5.

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Live from TED TED Blog

WebFor the ninth session of TED2017, hosted by TED’s Editorial Director Helen Walters and Curation Director Kelly Stoetzel, we look into ourselves with seven speakers who take on subjects ranging from parenting to social interaction and heartbreak, revealing nuggets of wisdom that just might help you lead a better, more fulfilled life.

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Natasha Scripture TED Blog

WebNatasha Scripture is a bestselling self-help author, journalist, poet, photographer and former UN Spokesperson based in New York. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, The Evening Standard and Daily Worth, among other publications.

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The healthcare debate: Jonathan Haidt on how our moral roots …

WebOnly on the TED Blog: In The TED Lens, each Sunday a TED speaker offers a new look at the week’s big news stories.This week, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks about how the moral roots of the political right and left are shaping the debate over healthcare in the United States.. In your talk at TED2008, you asked us all to “take the …

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Alejandra Vasquez TED Blog

Webon Apr 26, 2017. On day two of TED2017, three sessions of talks — one on Our robotic overlords, the next on The human response and the final on Health, life and love. Below, some key moments from it all. A TED Talk from … the Pope. For weeks, we’ve teased a “surprise guest” on the program, a mysterious “world [ …]

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What is a “smart” syringe

WebIn the talk, Koska shared what his charity, SafePoint, was doing to help: designing a syringe that locks up and breaks if a second use is attempted. Today, the World Health Organization announced a new policy on injection safety, mandating a full transition to safety-engineered “smart” syringes by 2020. The organization called this “an

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Paul Farmer: Investigating the root causes of the global health

WebPhysician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, who co-founded Partners in Health, comments on the new TED Book, “The Upstream Doctors.”. By Paul Farmer. At the end of almost a decade spent in teaching hospitals and clinics, most (we hope all) physicians have honed their clinical acumen by focusing on the care of the patient who is right in front

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Powerful films from 5 young people: What health inequality looks …

WebTo kickstart the discussion, we first asked young people across America to reveal the health challenges in their own lives, from their perspective. In a few weeks, five young filmmakers created powerful videos about their communities and lives. Lily Yu, 19, reflected on growing up in West Oakland, California, “fenced in by freeways,” with

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The intersection of health and haircuts: Joseph Ravenell at TED2016

WebNow, he turned his research attention towards the barbershop, where the intersection of health and haircuts can be cultivated, starting the Men’s Health Initiative. In Dallas, Ravenell teamed up with a cadre of black barbers, teaching them how to test for high blood pressure and how to counsel customers to properly manage their blood pressure.

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Moving healthcare forward: The talks of TED Salon: Catalyst

WebInnovating the healthcare funding and distribution model. While working in an eye care clinic in Kenya, Andrew Bastawrous was frustrated to find that because of rigid funding regulations, he wasn’t able to help people in desperate need who didn’t have “the right problems.” Though specific resource allocation makes business sense, Bastawrous …

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