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What if solving poverty, caring for nature and fostering well-being were the ultimate goals of the economy, instead of growth for its own sake? Environmentalist and...
Joel Bervell was one of the only Black students in his medical school program. After noticing how misconceptions about race were embedded in health care, he...
Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how...
Biomedical researcher Sonia Vallabh’s life was turned upside down when she learned she had the genetic mutation for a rare and fatal illness, prion disease, that...
Menopause isn’t just hot flashes, says gynecologist and sexual medicine specialist Maria Sophocles. It’s often accompanied by overlooked symptoms like painful sex or loss of libido....
Organ transplants save lives, but they come with challenges: every minute a healthy donated organ is on ice increases risk. And even if things go perfectly,...
Leaders can’t be afraid to disrupt the status quo, says pharmaceutical CEO Paul Hudson. In conversation with TED’s Lindsay Levin, he shares how AI eliminates “unglamorous...
Catching cancer at its earliest stages saves lives. But in a body made up of trillions of cells, how do you spot a small group of...
How does getting an abortion — or not — influence a woman’s life? Demographer Diana Greene Foster puts forward the results of The Turnaway Study, her...
“Everybody pees and poops — and we know that urine and stool contain a rich source of information on our health,” says data detective Newsha Ghaeli....
