Search Constraints
Number of results to display per page
Results for:
Language
English
Remove constraint Language: English
Resource Type
Video
Remove constraint Resource Type: Video
Search Results
-
Video
Overcrowded clinics, extensive wait times and overworked doctors are taking a devastating toll on mothers and children in India. In this eye-opening talk, urogynecologist and TED Fellow Aparna Hegde exposes the systemic gaps that lead to preventable deaths every minute -- and introduces scalable, affordable and empowering tech solutions that improve maternal and child health outcomes, upend patriarchal family dynamics and save lives.
- Subjects:
- Health Technology and Informatics and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical telematics Medical care -- India
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Easy access to nutrients has contributed to the increase in obesity in the human population. But, what is obesity and why isn’t everybody fat? Dr. Stephen O’Rahilly provides a biomedical perspective of obesity, and evaluates which genes could potentially shift the balance towards obesity. As he explains, one becomes obese when the balance between energy intake and energy spent is shifted. Surprisingly, mutations that lead to obesity in humans aren’t in genes involved in metabolism and energy storage, but failure in satiety signals in the brain that result in people eating too much. The excess of energy intake over energy expenditure leads to obesity. What is the consequence of obesity in human health? Physically, obesity can result in lower mobility and sleeping disorders. But, in humans, the link between obesity and metabolic diseases isn’t straightforward. For example, not everyone that’s obese becomes insulin resistant. As O’Rahilly explains, the probability of an obese individual to have a metabolic disease is linked to the capacity of adipose tissue to store the extra fat. Mutations that decrease fat storage in adipose tissue increase the chance of metabolic diseases, like insulin resistance, even when the person is not obese.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Obesity -- Genetic aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Health services administration
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine."
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Medical geography
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental illness -- Prevention Noise pollution -- Health aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Heart -- Diseases -- Research Heart diseases in women
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
- Subjects:
- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Social medicine Poor -- Medical care
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Mental health service Mental health personnel -- Training of
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking talk, lumping everyone in together means we essentially leave women's health to chance. It's time to rethink.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Men -- Health hygiene Women -- Health hygiene Health -- Sex differences
- Resource Type:
- Video
-
Video
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Child mental health Psychic trauma in children
- Resource Type:
- Video