TED Talks
Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class
India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a re-think of all human...
TED Talks
David Heymann: What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus
What happens if you get infected with the coronavirus? Who's most at risk? How can you protect yourself? Public health expert David Heymann, who led the global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003, shares the latest findings about...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is a coronavirus?
For almost a decade, scientists chased the source of a deadly new virus through China’s tallest mountains and most isolated caverns. They finally found it in the bats of Shitou Cave. The virus in question was a coronavirus that caused an...
TED Talks
Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
Every doctor makes mistakes. But, says physician Brian Goldman, medicine's culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from ever talking about those mistakes, or using them to learn and improve. Telling stories from his own long...
SciShow
How to Make a COVID-19 Vaccine
One year to eighteen months might seem like a while to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine, but there's a good reason finding and approving a candidate takes a whole lot of time.
TED Talks
TED: In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life | Jan Rader
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. As a fire chief and first responder, Jan Rader has spent her career saving lives. But when the opioid epidemic hit...
TED Talks
TED: The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it | Travis Rieder
The United States accounts for five percent of the world's population but consumes almost 70 percent of the total global opioid supply, creating an epidemic that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths each year. How did we get here,...
MinuteEarth
Do You Need To Be Rich To Be Healthy? (ft. Bill Gates)
No matter how wealthy a country is, there's a lot it can do to improve the health of its citizens.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What happens to our bodies after we die? - Farnaz Khatibi Jafari
Since the dawn of humanity, an estimated 100.8 billion people have lived and died, a number that increases by about 0.8% of the world's population each year. What happens to all of those peoples' bodies after they die? And will the...
TED Talks
Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all
It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak before we get serious about making a vaccine for it. Seth Berkley lays out the market realities and unbalanced risks behind why we aren't making vaccines for the world's biggest...
TED Talks
Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. And when the Ebola epidemic exploded in 2014, it caused a worldwide panic. But humanity can beat Ebola -- and Aylward shows four...
TED Talks
TED: Why civilians suffer more once a war is over | Margaret Bourdeaux
In a war, it turns out that violence isn't the biggest killer of civilians. What is? Illness, hunger, poverty -- because war destroys the institutions that keep society running, like utilities, banks, food systems and hospitals....
TED Talks
TED: A new weapon in the fight against superbugs | David Brenner
Since the widespread use of antibiotics began in the 1940s, we've tried to develop new drugs faster than bacteria can evolve -- but this strategy isn't working. Drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs killed nearly 700,000 people last...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed
Humans should urinate at least four to six times a day, but occasionally, the pressures of modern life force us to clench and hold it in. How bad is this habit, and how long can our bodies withstand it? Heba Shaheed takes us inside the...
TED Talks
Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all
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....
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Could one vaccine protect against everything? | TED-Ed
There's a vaccine being developed now that would protect you against every strain of the flu— even ones that don't exist yet. But influenza is constantly mutating, so is a universal vaccine even possible? And how do you design a vaccine...
SciShow
From Heartbleed to Tamiflu: Why We're Less Safe Than We Thought
SciShow News looks into two things that were giving us less protection than we thought they were: online security software, and anti-viral drugs.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do ventilators work?
In the 16th century, physician Andreas Vesalius described how a suffocating animal could be kept alive by inserting a tube into its trachea and blowing air to inflate its lungs. Today, Vesalius’s treatise is recognized as the first...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do we study living brains? - John Borghi and Elizabeth Waters
As far as we know, there's only one thing in our solar system sophisticated enough to study itself: the human brain. But this self-investigation is challenging because a living brain is shielded by skull, swaddled in tissue, and made up...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Oxygen's surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler
Oxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role in the production of energy in most cells. But if gases can only efficiently diffuse across tiny distances, how does oxygen reach the cells deep inside...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What makes TB the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas
Learn why tuberculosis, TB, is the world’s most infectious disease and how medical advancements are improving treatment. -- In 2008, two 9,000-year old skeletons were found with their bones infected by an all too familiar bacterium. The...
TED Talks
Sex, drugs and HIV: Let's get rational - Elizabeth Pisani
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of...
TED Talks
Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health
You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat?
In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The number of prescriptions skyrocketed, and so did cases of addiction, beginning a...