America Bracho: Aficionado Of Community Based Health Care

You call a patient non-compliant but their poor health is a product of a lack of resources, education and access to effective health care. We need to give community medicine back to the community, by recruiting community experts. Latino Health Access recruits community members who are employed to be leaders of wellness and change in their own community. We recruit the heart and train the brain. We must allow people to lead the change that they want to see in their community.

 (America Bracho Speaking with the Director of the NIH about the state of medicine for the underserved.)

Mapping The Facts

The sun rises in east and sets in the west. It obviously moves through the sky. Common sense tells me that when I sit, I am at rest. But that which is evident is often wrong. All facts have a shelf-life and science is the process of endlessly rediscovering the truth. The photo above shows the first depiction of the sun as the center of our universe; a sun that does not move and an earth that moves us perpetually. 

(Adapted from a speech by Jay Walker, TEDMED Curator.)

Let The Talks Begin

Left: Regina Benjamin, the Surgeon General promoting mobilizing our nation because movement heals.

Top Right: Ultramarathon runner, Dean Karnazes, wearing his Boston Marathon metal in support of all the heroes who ran toward the disaster, in hopes of helping others. 

Bottom Right: Rafael Yuste, the man whose dreams are leading us to a map of every neuron in the brain, all 100 billion of them. 

Hive Hopes for the Future: The BioDigital Human

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 

The BioDigital Human brings anatomy to life like we've never seen it before. Watch as co-founder and developer John Qualter shows me how to manipulate the 3D image with the wave of his hand. 

http://www.biodigital.com/biodigital-human.html

Hive Hopes For The Future: Novocor Medical Systems

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 

Keeping patients cold is saving lives.

Current data suggests that a heart attack patient induced into a hypothermic state may have reduced morbidity and mortality. Tissues slow down their metabolism and blood flow in the cold. This slowing decreases the likelihood that heart tissue will suffer subacutely from further lack of oxygen and reperfusion damage, following a heart attack. Tony Voiers of Novocor Medical Systems has taken this information to heart, and created mobile hypothermic induction units (HypoCores) to be used by emergency medical technicians
 on cardiac patients. 

The Hive

The Hive is the epicenter of innovation at TEDMED. It is where delegates mingle, eat meals and try out the latest technological innovations. 

(I've died and gone to Google...I imagine this is what it is like working at Google.)

TEDMED Moves Us To Action

The company fitbit, founded in San Francisco by engineers James Park and Eric Friedman, is counting on us all, literally. The company has provided all 1,800 conference delegates with a wireless activity trackers. The goal: walk around the world in 3.5 days. To achieve this each delegate must take approximately 9,000 steps a day. Get movin!

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