Disease

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of disease.

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.

The fabulous life of germs

8 talks • 1h 47m
Germs -- they get around. Learn what their travels and overall existence can teach us about not just ourselves, but the past, present and future of humanity.

Talks about Disease

12:10

Jimmy Lin

A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early

Posted Jul 2017
13:58

Manu Prakash

Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper

Posted Jul 2017
15:02

Sharon Terry

Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it

Posted Jun 2017
20:30

Raj Panjabi

No one should die because they live too far from a doctor

Posted Jun 2017
15:10

Nina Fedoroff

A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases

Posted May 2017
13:56

Lisa Genova

What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's

Posted Apr 2017
16:35

Moshe Szyf

How early life experience is written into DNA

Posted Mar 2017
10:44

Michael Botticelli

Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one

Posted Mar 2017
9:59

Katie Hinde

What we don't know about mother's milk

Posted Mar 2017
12:26

Joshua Smith

New nanotech to detect cancer early

Posted Feb 2017
9:53

Ellen Jorgensen

What you need to know about CRISPR

Posted Oct 2016
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
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Exclusive articles about Disease

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...
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