The Oklahoma City Slim-Down

Oklahoma City Mayor, Mick Cornett, put his city on a diet to lose ONE MILLION pounds. After Oklahoma City was named one of America’s fattest cities, Mayor Cornett demanded better health for his community. He implemented planning to make the city more walk-able. In a city with the most per-capita fast-food restaurants in the country, Mayor Cornett worked to create healthier menu options. If that wasn't enough, life-sized cutouts of the Mayor appeared in every Taco Bell. The Mayor’s special quickly became the most popular item on the menu. Oklahoma City lost one million pounds and is now named on a different list, America’s Fittest Cities. 

Larry Brilliant Ideas For Pandemic Prevention

Smallpox killed more people than all the world’s wars combine, and Dr. Brilliant was on the team that eradicated this disease from our plant forever. Dr. Brilliant proposes a three tiered approach to pandemic prevention. Given his name and track-record we should probably listen. Google created quicker detection when tracking key strokes, predicting this year's flu season a full two weeks before the CDC. Better response time is being achieved through patient self-reporting, with organizations like http://flunearyou.org/. Better governance includes the CORDS initiative, creating regional networks at outbreak hot-spots (http://www.cordsnetwork.org/). Dr. Brilliant is living up to his name.

Playtime 4 The Mind

You may think you are in control, but watch-out! These blocks have imagination of their own. You just might end up seeing a pattern in something you thought was completely random. (These blocks connect to each other in specific ways; Notice the helical shape the blocks form as they stack.)

Hive Hopes For the Future: A Tiny Camera That Solves Big Problems

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

                                  

A hysterosalpingogram is a painful and expense procedure to diagnose scarring of the fallopian tubes, the leading cause of infertility. This procedure was developed in 1914 and nVision COE, Surbhi Arna, thinks it’s time for a change. For one-fourth the cost, she can diagnose fallopian tube scarring in an obstetrics office, with no pain and no radiation. CMOS is a tiny camera attached to a flexible tube that plugs into equipment already available in most obstetric offices in the country. CMOS is a diagnostic tool of the future. 

Work IT Out

(Photo courtesy of TEDMED Press Protal) 

Every morning TEDsters have options for exercising their bodies before a day of exercising their minds. You can run with ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes, do yoga with Guru Bhavani Maki, or Meditate with Rana Chudnofsky. (That last option is really more like stretching for the day of mental exercise.) Regardless of what you choose, TEDsters stay true to the mind, body and soul approach to medicine. 

The National Air and Space Museum Delegate Dinner

This year's TEDMED nightlife includes a night at The National Air and Space Museum. This Delegate dinner celebration features all-access to the museum, phenomenal food and a conveyor belt of desserts. 

Hive Hopes For The Future: Visualdx, The ARTS And CRAFTS Of Diagnosis

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 
(Art and Craft...Sorry guys I can't resist a good tagline!!!)

 Art Papier and Noah Craft are dermatologist who have come to TEDMED with an innovation in diagnostic programming and they want you to see it. On average, twenty-five percent of initial diagnoses are wrong. Visualdx is a diagnostic decision support tool. It allows you to create searches based on anything from symptoms to patient history, and then refine your search based on co-morbidities and further demographics, to arrive at possible diagnoses. For example, search the patient’s symptom of a rash>on a child>confined to trunk>patient also has sore throat>Voila! An array of possible diagnoses is propagated; many accompanied by a library of images, enabling doctors to confirm the diagnosis, demonstrate to patients and educate students.

(Get it here: http://www.visualdx.com/)