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Healthcare services in Chad are on the move. Through the work of a mobile clinic project, nurses, HIV/Aids councillors and HIV/AIDS testers are traveling to ...

The UCLA Child Life/Child Development Program launched "Dréa's Dream," the first pediatric Dance Therapy Program in Los Angeles in November 2008, providing dance/movement therapy for children with cancer and special needs

In this video, we see magnetically labeled circulating tumor cells (shown as yellow spheres), together with red, white and platelet cells, attempting to travel over an array of slanted ramps. The ramps act as speed bumps, slowing the tumor cells. As the tumor cells slow, the flow carries them along the length of the ramp, causing lateral displacement. After the tumor cells traverse an array of these ramps, they have sufficiently been displaced and can be continuously isolated from other cells in the sample.

Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UC San Diego, talks about how napping improves mind and memory...

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Dr. Mark Hyman says that self-care is the key to being a healthy human today. In fact, he says, eighty percent of health conditions can be solved without a physician. The health care system puts band aids on the symptoms and doesn't deal with the causes. "Don't treat disease," Hyman says. "Create health." You can do this by taking care of yourself and solving your own health issues. You're smarter than the healthcare system thinks you can be

Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.

A short educational video for children about aphasia following stroke. The video combines a cartoon treasure hunt with recordings of a real-life aphasia patient who seems to be affected by a type of anomic aphasia where affected people have trouble with saying names of objects or items.

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Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.

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With the help of the TACC's supercomputing power, researchers at the University of Texas explore the health risks of wireless devices through virtual body models and advanced algorithms. The danger of cell phones and other mobile devices has been explored for many years, but the tests used to measure their electromagnetic radiation output are inadequate. Ali Yilmaz, Ph.D., and his team of students and anatomists have created high resolution computer simulations of tissue, bone, and blood vessels that they're using to test how heat from mobile devices travels through and is absorbed by our bodies.

A quadriplegic man has regained partial control of his hands after doctors rewired the nerves in his arm.

Scientists from the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center used adult stem cells to produce a protein involved in bone healing gel. The putty provides full load bearing capabilities. Once its implanted into the site of a fracture bone, it rapidly restore a patient to ambulatory function while healing. Fracture Putty has already been proven to work in animals, and It could be two or more years until human studies are done.

FlexLeg is a revolutionary new mobility aid created to help those with temporary lower leg injuries, such as a broken ankle. This video shows someone using FlexLeg to do things that you cannot do on crutches or knee rollers.

Brain artery model simulates cerebral function

Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.