Senior officials from the Health and Human Services Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and State Department testified on how the World Health Organization (WHO) may be im…
567 viewsDr. Atul Gawande, assistant administrator for global health at USAID and Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director, and experts from the World Health Organization, World Food Programme, Mercy Cor…
347 viewsPresident Obama delivered remarks at the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference highlighted a variety of science and technology innovations.
2,363 viewsDr. Atul Gawande talked about his book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, in which he argues that with all that medical science can solve in the modern era, it should be be…
3,555 viewsDr. Atul Gawande talked about his book Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, published by Metropolitan Books. In his essay collection he wrote about the challenges that confront his prof…
1,344 viewsDr. Atul Gawande talked about health care legislation and the current state of the health care industry. He also talked about his book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metro…
2,206 viewsFirst Lady Michelle Obama talked at the National Governor’s Association Winter Meeting about childhood obesity. Drs. Atul Gawande and Jack Cochran talked about health care reform.
2,846 viewsAtul Gawande talked about the process in which surgical mistakes occur and the human element that interacts with the science of medicine. He also talked about the dynamic relationship betwee…
1,058 viewsSteven Pinker moderated a panel of science writers about the book to which they had contributed, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, published by Houghton Mifflin. They read f…
357 viewsThe finalists for the 2002 National Book Awards read selections from their nominated books. Twenty authors from the four nominated categories - nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and young people’…
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