Eva Vertes: My dream about the future of medicine

http://www.ted.com Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimers.

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[benbo2121]

chill everyone ,

this young girl was oviously very nervous to speak live on that magnitude . i thought she was very passionate and you'd not mind hearing her voice if she had the cure for cancer for your son or daughter :))

[pcasacub]

I can't believe some of these comments. For god sake, you listen to a 19 year old talking about her experiments and proposing new radical ideas about what cancer may be, and the only thing you can think about is that her "voice" in annoying? I bet your children will be super smart! It's amazing how some people can take the most amazing things for granted...

[kerimil]

ohh well she's cute and smart - I don't know WTF is your problem

[shahxp]

I know that she is young and all but no lie she had great ideas kudos to her research

[rhersh2011]

Nanosystems

[rhersh2011]

Human Genome Project

As well as Biosciences

Applied Math

Leadership as well

[vfjlab]

Rhabdomyosarcomas are malignant tumors of skeletal muscle. These tumors commonly grow in the arms or legs, but they can also begin in the head and neck area and in reproductive and urinary organs like the vagina or bladder. Children are affected much more often than adults.

[ferifoori]

she is amazing

[Jefferdaughter]

@nabeelmerchant - There are many non-corporate therapies for cancer. Better yet, there is the concept of prevention. She is on the right track in that she is looking at working with the body's natural processes, instead of against them. Obviously she is is being brought up in mainstream medical science, but she has the imagination to look at things in a fresh way. She may be the one to get the mainstream medical world to see anew.

[amiosa35]

for those of you who are criticizing her public speaking skills, what were you doing when you were 19? what were you capable of? Any way that cancer research can be made more sensational to be more accessible to the paris hilton culture we are stewing in like human meat cubes is a positive addition. our world is ridiculous and when someone who is 19 has a passion for research, i sleep a little better. i'll take nervous imperfect enthusiasm over useless opinion (yes including mine) any day. peace

[nabeelmerchant]

Does this woman know there is already a supressed cure for cancer. But telling to the public will get you ridiculed and murdered, so why not create one that is corporate friendly.