TED video: The Future of Wireless Medicine

No doubt, TED.com is a great source of thought-provoking videos. There are a number of engaging videos, but one recently posted one stood out to me. Eric Topol's talk "The Future of Wireless Medicine" is a standout, and I've linked it to the right, just click on it to play. Check it out -- it's 15 minutes well-spent. Here's a description: 

Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.
 

For those of you who don't know who Eric Topol is, he's a cardiologist and Director of the Scripps Translational Institute in La Jolla, CA, among other things, and is regarded as an innovator.

The 2nd video to the right is Anthony Atala talking about the technology involved in printing a human kidney. Granted, that's sounds a little far-out, but it makes you think. Here's a description of his talk:

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

Anthony Atala is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenterative Medicine and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.

If you're not familiar with the TED video programs, check them out at TED.com, and check out some of the other videos from the recent  TEDx Maastricht, The Future of Health event.

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Stephen Welch

Senior Vice President, Communications
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