Is As Close As Your Device
Is As Close As Your Device
iDoctor: Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?
One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine. Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
THE WIRELESS FUTURE OF MEDICINE
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.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine:How the Digital Revolution Will Reinvent Healthcare
Dr. Eric Topol, MD Director Scripps Translational Science Institute
Don Jones VP of Global Strategy Qualcomm Life
SANDRINE THURET YOU CAN GROW BRAIN CELLS
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated with aging along the way.
Virtual doctors treat young patients at Texas public schools
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