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"Healthcare Anthem of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany"

A thoughtful ode to health care, composed by Tilo Alpermann and performed on the TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany stage by Lars Jönnson.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Piano music
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5 Skin Health Myths To Stop Believing Now

Your skin is your body's largest organ ... but it might be the most misunderstood, says Dr. Jen Gunter. From sunscreen to cancer and even chocolate, she tackles five misleading myths about skin and shares what you can do to protect it. Want to hear more from Dr. Gunter? Check out her podcast Body Stuff, from the TED Audio Collective.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Skin
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A Mathematical Model for Predicting Parkinson's

What if we looked at Parkinson's as an neurological electrical problem? Brain researcher Eleftheria Pissadaki and her team study dopamine neurons, the neurons that selectively die during Parkinson's. They discovered that the bigger a neuron is, the more vulnerable it becomes because it simply requires more energy. This new insight is reframing the disease -- and by "finding the fuse box for each neuron" and figuring out how much energy it needs, may help us neuroprotect our brain cells.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Brain -- Diseases -- Research Brain -- Mathematical models
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A Personal Health Coach for Those Living with Chronic Diseases

There's no shortage of resources to help people change their health behaviors -- but far too often, these resources aren't accessible in underserved communities, says physician Priscilla Pemu. Enter "culturally congruent coaching," a program Pemu and her team developed to help patients with chronic diseases monitor their health with the assistance of a coach from their community. Learn more about how this approach transcends language and cultural barriers -- and could potentially transform health care in America.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
Keywords:: Chronically-ill -- Services for Health coaches
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A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think about Public Health

Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Medicial informatics Big data Public health
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Abdominal organs (plastic anatomy)

We're going to take apart a plastic anatomy model and see what we can find in the abdomen. We'll identify as many organs as we can, see how they fit into the abdomen relative to one another, working our way from anterior to posterior.

Course related:: HTI17102 Imaging Anatomy
Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Organs (Anatomy) Abdomen
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Acid/Base Balance (Screencast)

Students read about how acid/base balance affects a person's health. This activity includes animation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Acid-base imbalances
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An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health And Disease

How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropologist Lara Durgavich discusses the field of evolutionary medicine as a gateway to understanding the quirks of human biology -- including why a genetic mutation can sometimes have beneficial effects -- and emphasizes how unraveling your own evolutionary past could glean insights into your current and future health.