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Video playlists about Disease

11 ideas for ending HIV/AIDS

11 talks • 2h 13m

These powerful talks offer ideas for rethinking—and hopefully stopping—the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Survivor’s wisdom

13 talks • 3h 0m

Powerful, perspective-shifting talks on what it means to live courageously.

Talks about Disease

13:04

Sebastian Kraves

The era of personal DNA testing is here

Posted Sep 2016

14:18

Sue Desmond-Hellmann

A smarter, more precise way to think about public health

Posted May 2016

6:03

Laura Indolfi

Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer

Posted May 2016

10:43

Sangeeta Bhatia

This tiny particle could roam your body to find tumors

Posted May 2016

12:25

Jennifer Kahn

Gene editing can now change an entire species — forever

Posted May 2016

15:28

Riccardo Sabatini

How to read the genome and build a human being

Posted Apr 2016

10:42

Paula Hammond

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer

Posted Apr 2016

13:49

Mary Bassett

Why your doctor should care about social justice

Posted Feb 2016

14:36

Dorothy Roberts

The problem with race-based medicine

Posted Feb 2016

9:37

Pardis Sabeti

How we'll fight the next deadly virus

Posted Feb 2016

15:29

Alyson McGregor

Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

Posted Oct 2015

17:35

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

Posted Oct 2015

11:57

Robin Morgan

4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older

Posted Sep 2015

13:35

Tony Wyss-Coray

How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really

Posted Aug 2015

16:59

Maryn McKenna

What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?

Posted Jun 2015

8:32

Bill Gates

The next outbreak? We’re not ready

Posted Apr 2015

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Exclusive articles about Disease

The most critical factor in medicine? Human bias

Oncologist and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee suggests that what doctors fight against isn’t so much disease — it’s their own biases. In the summer of 2003, I finished my three-yea...

3 articles on the danger of Ebola paranoia

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What can we learn from how animals cope?

Author of the book Animal Madness, TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shares 5 ways in which animals and humans suffer from similar mental illnesses. Anthropomorphism run amok? You deci...