Today’s talk, “Francis Collins: We need better drugs—now,” comes from TEDMED
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To get you in the spirit for this amazing event, here some powerful TEDMED talks from years past.
- David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes
- Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
- E.O Wilson: Advice to your scientists
- Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
- Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
- Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
- A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
- Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle
- Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields
- Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant