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6:05

George Zaidan

The epidemics that almost happened

Posted May 2023

0:00

Ben Gran

Why nurses are key to medical innovation

Posted Jan 2023

6:41

Jen Gunter

How vaccines are developed — and why they're safe

Posted Nov 2022

3:07

Jen Gunter

The truth about yeast in your body

Posted Nov 2022

5:26

TED-Ed

Could one vaccine protect against everything?

Posted Nov 2022

5:02

TED-Ed

Why is it so hard to cure the common cold?

Posted Oct 2022

3:18

Jen Gunter

What's a food allergy — and what's not?

Posted Oct 2022

12:47

Sheetal DeCaria

The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain

Posted Aug 2022

15:21

Brooke Bennett

Why the price of insulin is a danger to diabetics

Posted Aug 2022

56:37

Celina de Sola, Edith Elliott and Nonette Royo

How everyday people can tackle the world's biggest problems

Posted Jun 2022

4:54

Roni Shanoada

How does heart transplant surgery work?

Posted May 2022

9:12

Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam

The most powerful untapped resource in health care

Posted May 2022

7:53

Temie Giwa-Tubosun

The funding gap in start-up investing

Posted Apr 2022

14:46

Bill Gates

We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

Posted Apr 2022

6:50

Lei Li

The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging

Posted Feb 2022

10:15

Sam Hester

How visual storytelling creates better health care

Posted Jan 2022

4:58

Francisca Mutapi

Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa

Posted Dec 2021

9:06

Shweta Narayan

It's impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet

Posted Nov 2021

2:57

Mona Chalabi

How did we get fertility so wrong?

Posted Nov 2021

2:41

Mona Chalabi

Do 9 out of 10 dentists really recommend that toothpaste?

Posted Oct 2021

5:40

Jenna C. Lester

Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones

Posted Oct 2021

13:49

Steven Johnson

How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century

Posted Oct 2021

9:09

Olivia Affuso

3 ways community creates a healthy life

Posted Oct 2021

5:59

Alicia Chong Rodriguez

A smart bra for better heart health

Posted Sep 2021

12:41

Kathryn A. Whitehead

The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine

Posted Aug 2021

24:50

Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution

Posted Aug 2021

4:42

Jen Gunter

A cleanse won't detox your body — but here's what will

Posted Jul 2021

5:50

Jen Gunter

5 skin health myths to stop believing now

Posted Jun 2021

7:58

Aparna Hegde

The life-saving tech helping mothers make healthy decisions

Posted Jun 2021

14:52

Daniel Kraft

How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine

Posted May 2021

14:19

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The global cooperation that accelerated the COVID-19 vaccines

Posted Apr 2021

4:55

Jacques S. Abramowicz

How does ultrasound work?

Posted Apr 2021

11:50

TED Radio Hour

The Power of Spaces

Posted Mar 2021

21:22

Elaine Fong

My mother's final wish — and the right to die with dignity

Posted Mar 2021

4:06

Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz

Why is pneumonia so dangerous?

Posted Nov 2020

10:46

Johanna Benesty

What it takes to crush a pandemic

Posted Nov 2020