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How One Social Experiment Helped 15,000 People Lose 250,000 Pounds

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.27.2012

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Mark Hyman, MD

Acute disease can be left to the hospitals, but creating health and healing of chronic disease seems to happen best in the community -- with people helping people where each one of us lives, where we eat, cook, learn, work, play and pray.

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Your Health Is in Your Hands

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 04.25.2012

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Dr. Cindy Haines

Think health reform is solely in the hands of politicians, bureaucrats, and giant corporations? It's not. Every time you go to the doctor, you have the chance to help reform our health care system into a more streamlined, effective, and inexpensive machine.

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The $2 Trillion Question

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 04.24.2012

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Dr. Cindy Haines

Why is it that America is still spending $2 trillion on health care, mostly treating people after they become sick? How can we shift money toward prevention, where each dollar can save us multiple dollars on treatment?

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How TEDMED 'Groupinspire' Could Change the World

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 04.19.2012

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Dr Layla McCay

Making delegates believe their attendance at a conference will change the world -- and dashing off to do it as a result -- is surely the Holy Grail of conference organizers. Perhaps they should be looking to TED/TEDMED for clues to the formula.

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We Can Aim for More Than a Long, Sick, Expensive Life

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 04.16.2012

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Dr. Cindy Haines

The problem is actually that we're living longer, but the longevity is fueled by very expensive chronic diseases that were preventable. The dream of living a long, healthy life has been replaced by living a long, sick life.

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First Impressions of Our Future Health: Thoughts From TEDMED 2012

Dr. Cindy Haines | Posted 04.13.2012

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Dr. Cindy Haines

This week, I have seen a potential future of the nation's health -- and heard from and interacted with some of the players that are trying to impact and improve it.

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Mr. Walker Takes TEDMED to Washington

John Weeks | Posted 04.11.2012

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John Weeks

There is blunt idealism in Jay Walker's language about re-positioning the social-intellectual-scientific-policy-business venture called TEDMED to the nation's capital. It's shaping up as a contradictory mix of money and mission.

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LIVEBLOG: Thought-Provoking Health News From TEDMED 2012

Posted 04.11.2012

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From April 10 to 13, Healthy Living editors join some of the most creative and innovative minds in the health and medical field for TEDMED 2012 at the...

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Choosing the TEDMED 20 Great Challenges of Health Care

Rosina Samadani | Posted 04.03.2012

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Rosina Samadani

Next week, 1,200 innovators, entrepreneurs, industry and government stakeholders, artists, and health care practitioners will attend the annual TEDMED conference in Washington, D.C.

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Drinking the Kool-Aid That Is TEDMED

Diana Nyad | Posted 03.28.2012

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Diana Nyad

If you haven't yet sipped the TED Kool-Aid, get yourself a straw. I've been a public speaker for 35 years now but hit the Mt. Everest of conferences when I spoke for the TEDMED group this past October.

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WATCH: Relax And Live Longer?

Posted 01.23.2012

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While it seems inevitable that as we age we will experience more health problems, our chronological age isn't always the same as how old our body acts...

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WATCH: Dan Buettner On Why Diets And Exercise Don't Work

Posted 01.18.2012

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Researcher, explorer and author Dan Buettner has worked for years identifying Blue Zones, areas where people live markedly longer than average, and wh...

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Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer?

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 01.02.2012

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Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

When many of us think of mushrooms, we may think of culinary delights such as Portobello and Shiitake, or we may think of those "magic mushrooms." But the implication of mushrooms is absolutely profound. They have the potential to dramatically improve our health and the health of the planet.

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Catherine Pearson

Weight Watchers CEO Dishes Secret To Healthy Habits

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.31.2011

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Watching a lean David Kirchhoff take the stage at the recent TedMed conference to talk obesity prevention, it was difficult to imagine the Weight Watc...

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Medical Inventions: A Sneak Peak

TEDMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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Inventor Nathan Myhrvold gave the audience at TEDMED a peek into a few of the creative medical inventions he has in the works. A former CTO at Micr...

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'Superorgans' Could Revolutionize Organ Transplantation

TEDMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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Imagine: Two lungs are removed from a person and replaced with the lungs of another human being. And the body survives. It's a medical marvel, said Sh...

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TEDMED 2010: Danny Hillis On Proteomics: A 'Radical Approach' To Treating Cancer (VIDEO)

TEDMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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No doubt genomics and the mapping of the human genome is one of the great triumphs of modern science, supplying remarkable insight into the function a...

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Opera Singer's Illness Had Her 'Singing Her Own Obituary' (VIDEO)

TEDMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charity Tilleman-Dick, an American soprano who has sung opera at the Kennedy Center and throughout Europe, awoke from a month-long coma in September, ...

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Genes, John Wayne and Population Health

Paul Tarini | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Tarini

On the final day of TEDMED this year was unveiled Ozzy Osbourne's genome. There, for all to see, was the metal-rocking Prince of Darkness rendered in...

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TEDMED 2010: Today's Leaders In Health And Medicine (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The annual TEDMED conference brings together the top minds in the industry to foster conversations on the health care and medical industries -- approa...

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Cancer Research: New Science On Treating And Preventing Cancer From TEDMED 2010

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Hyman, MD

Modern medicine is like trying to diagnose what's wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes without ever looking inside to see what's going on. Functional medicine allows us to look under the hood.

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TED Talks: Philip Low On New Sleep Technology at TED MED: Streaming Brainwaves To Your Cell Phone (VIDEO)

TED MED | Meghan Neal | Posted 11.17.2011

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Understand sleep, and you could have the key to unlock some of the biggest neurological disorders affecting our health. Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, de...

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TED Talks: Goldie Hawn, Daniel Siegel On Mindfulness For Children At TEDMED (VIDEO)

TEDMED | Posted 11.17.2011

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Actress Goldie Hawn spoke at the TEDMED conference about her "very big, very broad dream" of bringing happiness to children. "I thought, let's do some...

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Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish Talk Health And Healing At TEDMED (VIDEO)

YouTube | Posted 11.17.2011

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Two pioneers in the field of and health wellness, Drs. Dean Ornish and Deepak Chopra, came together at the TEDMED conference to discuss their viewpoin...

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TED Talks: Inventor Dean Kamen Discusses Revolutionary Robot Arm At TED MED 2009 (VIDEO)

Michael Macher | Posted 11.17.2011

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"You're nuts." That's what inventor and self-taught physicist Dean Kamen told the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) when they asked...

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