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The Rare Disease Challenge: A $400K contest for research
In July, TED Fellow Jimmy Lin and his team discovered a gene mutation that might explain 4-year-old Maya Nieder’s rare developmental disease. After years of frustrating doctors and specialists’...
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Charity Tillemann-Dick shares the harrowing story of living between life and...
At TEDMED 2010, opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick told the story of a revolutionary, life-changing surgery — a double lung transplant. While a doctor had warned her that she would never sing again,...
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10 talks to help you better understand cancer
When you hear the word “cancer,” what do you think about? And how do you know what you think you know? Do you think of cancer as a disease of the old or as something that can affect anyone, as a death...
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Vaccines via a patch: Mark Kendall at TEDGlobal 2013
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Mark Kendall has a new medical invention that will make anyone with a fear of needles very happy: the Nanopatch, a tiny square (smaller than a postage stamp) that can...
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Big data for Lou Gehrig’s disease, MS, HIV, fibromyalgia — from patients...
TED Fellow Paul Wicks is changing the way patients with chronic health conditions connect with one another, and how they participate in research. Trained as a neuropsychologist — and specializing in...
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The past and future of malaria: A Q&A with Sonia Shah
At TEDGlobal 2013, Sonia Shah shares a surprising reason why we still haven’t ended malaria — that people in areas where it still exists have accepted it as a normal part of life. Photo: James Duncan...
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TED Talks with novel ways of thinking about epidemics
Malaria doesn’t just occur in the poorest parts of the world; malaria actually creates poverty. And while people in non-malarious countries are so concerned about the disease that they load up on...
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Illuminating an illness without end: Fellows Friday with Jennifer Brea
Three years ago, Jennifer Brea, then a PhD student in political science, was struck down by what appeared to be a severe flu. It turned out to be the beginning of a long illness — including...
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How do we stop the spread of Ebola? A Q&A at TEDGlobal 2014
Chikwe Ihekweazu speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED Ten years ago, epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu helped fight an outbreak in South Sudan. This TED Fellow now runs the health consultancy...
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Larry Brilliant’s new book shows how pandemics can be eradicated
In 1996, a potential pandemic could stay hidden for 167 days before being detected — but by 2009, that number was down to 23 days. Our pandemic detection technology has gotten much more sophisticated,...
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