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...
Healthcare Triage
Orphan Drugs: An Introduction
In the United States, the median price for an orphan drug is about $100,000 per year, twenty times the price of the median non-orphan drug. Given the staggering cost, you'd think we'd have a solid handle on whether that money is...
Healthcare Triage
The Opioid Crisis and the Way Forward
This is part 4 in our series on the opioid crisis, presented with support from the NIHCM Foundation. We've talked about the state of the opioid crisis, deaths of despair, and the disappointing evidence about marijuana as a treatment for...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
Now that we've covered some basics regarding drug nomenclature, drug administration, and the ways they move through and interact with the body, it's time to dive into a survey of specific drugs so we can learn about as many as we can....
Curated Video
Olympic champion Edwin Moses on covid-19, race and trans athletes | The Economist Podcast
The coronavirus pandemic has derailed the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but that’s not the only problem facing world sport. The Economist Asks podcast spoke to Edwin Moses, former hurdling gold medalist, about doping, race relations and the...
The Wall Street Journal
The Gene-Editing Revolution
Scientists are now hoping to cure diseases by editing the faulty genes that cause them. But we are still learning about the complex working of the human genome. What are the risks when you tinker with a genetic code that we only...
SWPictures
The Deadly Combination: Getting Treated for TB in South Africa
The Deadly Combination part 3/5: The video discusses the challenges of treating tuberculosis, including patient compliance and the rise of drug-resistant strains. It also explores the controversial practice of isolating patients with...
Visual Learning Systems
Harmful Substances
The video is about the negative effects of harmful substances on the human body, particularly during adolescence. The speaker highlights the importance of avoiding substances like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and non-prescription drugs,...
Octopus TV
Canned Laughter - It's OK Not To Be OK - Jonathan Hansler Monty Panesar speak with Andrew Eborn
Canned Laughter: It's OK not to be OK is a project from Octopus TV to help to de-stigmatise those affected by mental health aimed at people working in the entertainment industries. The host Andrew Eborn is committed to raising the...
SWPictures
The Deadly Combination: Living with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
The Deadly Combination part 5/5: The video is about the challenges faced by patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa, including the toxic side effects of treatment and the long wait times for test results. It highlights...
Healthcare Triage
Heart Disease Prevention Works, Even If You Have Bum Genes
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in the United States. Because of that, billions of dollars are spent every year on medications that reduce your risk of disease and death. Compounding this problem, many of the risk...
Healthcare Triage
Why Does the U.S. Spend So Much on Healthcare? High, High Prices.
American healthcare spending is still WAY higher than pretty much all other industrialized countries. But not that long ago, things were different. The US didn't spend nearly as much in this realm. What changed? Demographics? More...
Professor Dave Explains
Sulfa Drugs
With the birth of the pharmaceutical industry covered, it's time to investigate an early achievement of this industry: the development of antibiotics. This will be divided into two parts, so before we get to the famous penicillin, we...
SWPictures
SMS for Life: Using Mobile Phones to Manage Malaria Drug Stocks in Tanzania
The video discusses the issue of malaria in Africa, which kills 800,000 people every year, with 85% of them being children under the age of 5. The video introduces a new management information system called SMS for Life, which uses...
MarketWatch
How to pay less for your prescriptions - even without insurance
Medication costs continue to rise with no sign of slowing down amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. But there are ways to pay less for your prescriptions. Here's what you need to know.
Professor Dave Explains
Methotrexate (Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug)
In the previous tutorial we introduced antirheumatic drugs called DMARDs. Now let's discuss in greater detail a particular small molecule DMARD called methotrexate. This was originally designed to be an anti-cancer drug, but it was...
Healthcare Triage
Cancer Research Spotlighted in Nobel Prize for Medicine
We've been talking a lot about the state of cancer research in the HCT Podcast, and now the Nobel prize in medicine is going to cancer researchers. So that's pretty cool. Check out some of the amazing (and amazingly expensive) treatments...
Healthcare Triage
Why Is It So Hard to Lower Drug Prices?
There are many, many factors that contribute to high drug prices. Regulating them is complicated. It turns out, expensive drugs are often expensive because they're hard to replicate. We try to shed some light on the situation.
The Telegraph
Smart drugs' epidemic as one in 12 adults admit taking them - with most trying them at work
One in 12 adults has taken "smart drugs" - with most trying them at work, a survey shows. Neuroscientists said growing numbers of people were turning to medication in a bid to cope with workload pressures. And they warned that the pills...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Antirheumatics (DMARDs)
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that primarily attacks the lining of the joints. While we are familiar with NSAIDs for their anti-inflammatory properties, with RA a much more useful class of drugs is DMARDs, or...
Weird History
Walter Freeman Jackson - The Man Who Invented The Lobotomy
Walter Jackson Freeman II was an evangelical neurosurgeon, vocal about his beliefs and touting a procedure of his own creation from the 1940s through the 1960s. It was called a lobotomy, an operation that involved inserting a sharp metal...
Planet PE
GCSE PE Whats on Paper 2
Take a look at my quick overview of the topics on the specification for AQA gcse pe Paper 2.
Financial Times
The drugs don't work: a global antibiotics crisis
The World Health Organisation says drug-resistant diseases already kill at least 700,000 people each year. This could be 10m deaths each year by 2050 unless new antibiotics are found. The FT's Andy Bounds visits the UK government-backed...
TLDR News
Who Decides Which Drugs are Legal? Drug Classification Explained - TLDR News
Yes, you read that right. According to the UK's former drugs advisor horses are more dangerous than drugs. So in this video we unpack how drug classification works, how the danger of drugs is measured and who decides which ones are illegal.