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4 TED talks that will have you feeling everything from wonder to anger

Innovations in healthcare are an essential focus for TED talks presented each year. There is […]

Innovations in healthcare are an essential focus for TED talks presented each year. There is a lot of fascinating new information, but there’s also some alarming demonstrations showing how what we once thought was true or made sense in the field isn’t necessarily sound. It’s time to take a deeper look.

Here are four TED talks that we thought were important and insightful in regards to where we are now with healthcare and how we are moving forward:

Rishi Manchanda is all about getting to the root cause of what is actually making people sick. He addresses the “upstream” factors like a poor diet, a stressful job, a lack of fresh air. Life outside the exam room is an important aspect to assessing a patient’s health.

Rebecca Onie wants to know why we aren’t taking more advantage of patient waiting rooms – and why a doctor can’t prescribe heat for a patient who can’t pay their bill.

Negative results and data are left unreported more than they should be. That skews how we understand health and the population in a major way. Ben Goldacre address the issue of why all drug tests and trials should be reported.

This talk is from last year, but it seems entirely relevant right now with the Ebola outbreak. Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall introduced the Nanopatch, a one-centimeter-by-one-centimeter square vaccine that can be applied painlessly to the skin. Not only could painlessness be a benefit, but the additional absence of contamination is a selling point.

 

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