Paul Saffo analyzes the historic patterns of technology innovation and adoption, and predicts their impact on entrepreneurship.

Harvard Professor David Scadden envisions a future where medicines activate stem cells already in our bodies. The pharmaceutical industry is taking notice.

Harvard Professor David Scadden discusses the wonder of self-replenishing stems cells, and reveals scientific findings that might enable any stem cell to be reprogrammed as an embryonic stem cell.

The Yale University Director worries that consumers need a PhD to understand what they’re eating. He proposes simplifying food labels so everyone can be a nutritional expert.

A conversation with Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center.

David L. Katz insists access to healthcare is a basic human right and proposes reforms to incentivize preventative care.

When the Atkins Diet took off into the stratosphere, every supermarket stocked low-carb foods. Nutrition expert David L. Katz wants to achieve the same thing with healthy foods generally.

The weight management expert developed a school program, and released it into the public domain, called Activity Burst in the Classroom (ABC) that helps restless children release their energies.

David L. Katz counsels overweight and obese people to be healthy by discussing “medical absolution”–you are partly responsible for your excess weight, but not to blame.

Starting with African American churches and community leaders in Connecticut, medical expert David L. Katz wants to put the findings of the Diabetes Prevention Program to work in every town […]

When it comes to preventing chronic disease, the gap between knowledge and action belies the notion that knowledge is power, according to health expert David L. Katz.

Quoting the Spiderman movie–“with great power comes great responsibility”–David L. Katz implores health professions to empower people before requesting they take responsibility for their well being.

Weight management expert David L. Katz criticizes technological advances that have created lifestyles at odds with physical activity and healthy diets.

Health expert David L. Katz discusses the complexity of nutrition and how he became interested in preventative medicine.

In partnership with Pfizer, Big Think presents an online forum on breakthroughs in medicine featuring presentations by top figures in the fields of personal genomics and pandemics.

For scientists to better correlate genes and disease, millions of people need to voluntarily have their genomes analyzed.

Genetic testing made Discover editor Boonsri Dickinson fear for the future of her eyes, and her gut.

Boonsri Dickinson had three direct-to-consumer companies analyze her genetic susceptibility to disease, and the results were all over the map.

Paul Hoffman, Big Think’s Editorial Chairman, introduces a panel discussion on genetic testing.

A conversation with the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

To create a culture of wellness, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, urges business and government to prevent illness in the first place.

Why we may be first generation in modern history to raise offspring less healthy than ourselves.

Electronic medical records will empower patients to self-manage their health, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation calls for improved access to healthcare information so patients can decide if operations and therapies are actually needed.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, implores hospitals to focus more on “ultimate outcomes”–patients getting better and staying healthy.

With donations and endowments drying up, charities and philanthropies should approach the economic downtown differently, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Oprah’s word can reverse years of bad luck for any writer or publisher.

The editor saw a huge niche for an organization to promote literature in translation in mainstream publishing.

Corporate publishing has dealt a strong blow to foreign writers trying to publish in English.