What doctors should know about gender identity | Kristie Overstreet
Kristie Overstreet is on a mission to ensure that the transgender community gets their health care needs met. In this informative, myth-bust...
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What commercialization is doing to cannabis | Ben Cort
In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and added to what has fast become a multibillion-dollar global industry for all things weed-related: fr...
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, crea...
How we can bring mental health support to refugees | Essam Daod
The global refugee crisis is a mental health catastrophe, leaving millions in need of psychological support to overcome the traumas of dislo...
How to start a conversation about suicide | Jeremy Forbes
Is there someone in your life dealing with anxiety, depression or thoughts of suicide -- but is too ashamed to talk about it? Jeremy Forbes...
What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases? | Caroline Harper
Thousands of years ago, ancient Nubians drew pictures on tomb walls of a terrible disease that turns the eyelids inside out and causes blind...
Math can help uncover cancer's secrets | Irina Kareva
Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with t...
Our fight for disability rights -- and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann
Four decades ago, Judith Heumann helped to lead a groundbreaking protest called the Section 504 sit-in -- in which disabled-rights activists...
What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy? | Matthias Müllenbeck
What if we incentivized doctors to keep us healthy instead of paying them only when we're already sick? Matthias Müllenbeck explains how thi...
A rite of passage for late life | Bob Stein
We use rituals to mark the early stages of our lives, like birthdays and graduations -- but what about our later years? In this meditative t...
Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski
Something strange and deadly is happening inside the brains of top athletes -- a degenerative condition, possibly linked to concussions, tha...
What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon | Minda Dentler
A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with no breaks in between: the legendary Iron...
How to connect with depressed friends | Bill Bernat
Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Lear...
The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki
What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to...
Why I train grandmothers to treat depression | Dixon Chibanda
Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -- for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be...
The dangerous evolution of HIV | Edsel Salvaña
Think we're winning the battle against HIV? Maybe not, as the next wave of drug-resistant viruses arrives. In an eye-opening talk, TED Fello...
The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care | Scott Williams
Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role of informal caregivers -- those friends...
Talk about your death while you're still healthy | Michelle Knox
Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, heartfelt talk about a subject most of us wo...
Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To ma...
Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed? | Arik Hartmann
The treatment of HIV has significantly advanced over the past three decades -- why hasn't our perception of people with the disease advanced...