Curated Video
Adaptation in India
"Adaptation in India" describes how Indians adapt to their physical environment.
Curated Video
I WONDER - Are There Different Types Of Microorganisms?
This video is answering the question of are there different types of microorganisms.
Curated Video
Portugal’s Influence on Brazil
Portugal’s Influence on Brazil explores the influence of Portugal on Brazil and the differences in history and culture.
Neuro Transmissions
Animal research is still the best option
Animal research is a controversial topic. It's critical for science and medicine, but is it "right" or ethical? New technologies are allowing scientists to conduct experiments in all kinds of new model systems. So that means that...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Public Health Surveillance
Public health surveillance is about more than just infectious disease epidemiology. It can include health surveillance on non-communicable disease, health service usage etc. Importantly it is about how health data is collected and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) strategy for 2023-2025. Innovative public health at its best!
The Medicines Patent Pool is one of the most interesting and innovative global health organisations. They have a huge impact on access to medicines in low-and-middle income countries. In this video we look at their new strategy for...
Vlogbrothers
Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles
This has been a wild time for me, but I am feeling much better.
Vlogbrothers
end the stigma
In which John discusses what actually causes the stigmatization of certain health conditions, and how best to fight stigma.
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Micro organisms
This video explores five fun facts about micro organisms.
Professor Dave Explains
Virus-Cell Interactions Part 2 Multicellular Hosts
We just went over some basics regarding virus-cell interactions, but we have a little more to discuss. We need to understand some more details regarding how viruses interact with multicellular hosts, such as humans. Let's take a look!
msvgo
Crop Protection - Diseases
It explains common plant diseases and describes common practices followed for protecting crops from diseases.
Curated Video
Lifestyle and Non-Communicable Diseases: Understanding the Factors and Correlations
The video is a lecture on lifestyle and noncommunicable diseases. The speaker explains the difference between communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and how noncommunicable diseases are caused by inheritance and lifestyle factors...
Neuro Transmissions
UCSD Scientists Explain How They Spend NIH Funds
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does that NIH money get spent? This week, we interviewed some UCSD Neuroscientists to tell you about...
Healthcare Triage
How Can We Make Gene Therapy Effective and Affordable?
For many, many years we've been hearing about gene therapy - the chance that we can get into people's DNA and fix it to resolve problems and fix disease. In a recent piece in Science, Stuart Orkin and Philip Reilly discuss what finally...
SWPictures
An Injection of Hope: Breaking the Vicious Circle
An Injection of Hope part 4/4: This video discusses the challenges faced by vaccine manufacturers like GlaxoSmithKline in producing affordable vaccines for developing countries where infectious diseases are still prevalent.
Healthcare Triage
The Pitfalls of Cost Sharing for Healthcare
Cost-sharing is the practice of making individuals responsible for part of their health insurance costs beyond the monthly premiums they pay for health insurance - think things like deductibles and copayments. The practice is meant to...
Curated Video
Detecting and Identifying Plant Diseases
This is a lecture video on detecting plant diseases. The presenter explains four different methods for identifying plant disease: observing visible symptoms, eliminating environmental causes, distribution analysis, and diagnostic...
SWPictures
An Injection of Hope: Vaccines are the Solution to Inadequate Healthcare
An Injection of Hope part 1/4: The video highlights the importance of vaccines in saving millions of lives and the inequality in access to vaccines between wealthy and developing nations. It emphasizes the need for global efforts to...
Neuro Transmissions
How the NIH Funds American Science
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does NIH money go? This week, we heard from scientists across the country about their NIH funded...
The Wall Street Journal
Case Study: Heart Disease
At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Senior Writer Betsy McKay spoke with Dr. Nieca Goldberg, medical director of the NYU Women's Heart Program, and Verve Therapeutics CEO Dr. Sekar Kathiresan about the troubling rise in heart disease.
Professor Dave Explains
Cholera Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139
What is cholera exactly? Believe it or not, this disease isn't gone, it's still an issue in various parts of the world. It's caused by Vibrio cholerae, and in particular two serotypes of this bacterium. Let's get some details!
Curated Video
Antibiotics: How Do They Work and Why is Resistance a Concern?
This video provides an overview of antibiotics, explaining how they work to help cure bacterial infections. It discusses the different types of drugs that treat symptoms versus those that work to cure the disease, as well as the...
Mazz Media
Biological Vectors
REAL WORLD SCIENCE: Biological Vectors and Infectious Diseases Using incredible videography, photos, animation and graphics, this information-packed video introduces students to biological vectors. Viewers will learn that biological...
Visual Learning Systems
Genetics in Our Lives: Human Genome
This exciting program takes a glimpse at some of the amazing advances in modern genetics. Starting with the discovery of DNA, students will be exposed to advances such as the creation of recombinant DNA, vaccines, the human genome...