The last international health care system we covered - Singapore - got a great response from all of you. This week. We head back to Europe. Specifically, we're going to Germany. Their universal health care system is based on the...

The video is a lecture presentation on sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The speaker defines what STIs are, including common examples like gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV. The speaker explains how HIV is spread from person to person...

Inspiration can be cruel, and artists often feel lost without it. And when it won't show up, which will happen, creative types turn to a myriad of restorative methods: running, isolation, reading, and, most infamously, drugs. But while...

This video provides an overview of the process of testing and trialing new drugs before they can be prescribed to the general public. It explains the preclinical testing phase, then describes the three stages of clinical trials. The...

Learn the basics about bucky balls, graphene and nano tubes. This video start with a short recap on Allotropes and then starts you off learning about Fullerenes and Graphene and then gives you an overview into nanoscience and it's uses...

There has been a lot of news lately about increasing crime in states where recreational marijuana has been legalized. Crime is rising in some of these states, but it doesn't seem to be tied to the legal weed.

Proteins are the workhorses of cells. With support from the National Science Foundation, University of Arkansas biochemist James Hinton has been researching their structure and function for decades. Back in the 1990's, he had a vision to...

Ageing is a complex process which results from progressive loss of the body’s ability to maintain itself. This ageing comes with diseases and a general decline in health. Over the past few decades, scientists have come to better...

This week on Blockchain Central we would like to share our thoughts on the impact that blockchain could have on the pharmaceutical industry. How would it work and what would be the benefits? Let's dive into it!

In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible....

Here I talk about some of the most common mistakes made by non-native English-speakers. Watch this and never make these mistakes again!

I'm getting lots of tweets, emails, tests, etc. "Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children". The is Healthcare Triage News.

Lesson on Raynaud’s phenomenon. Raynaud’s phenomenon or syndrome is a relatively common rheumatological condition that leads to an exaggerated vasoconstrictive response in the hands, feet, and other areas of the body. Raynaud’s is...

Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...

Earlier in the series we talked about how it was the artificial dye industry that gave way to the pharmaceutical industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Let's now examine the first large pharma companies to emerge, and the...

The painting was just too complex and detailed to deal with in fifteen minutes, so I made it in three parts.



There are no records to tell us what Bosch or his contemporaries were thinking. There are so many theories...

We just learned about immunosuppressants, so now it's time to learn about immunostimulants. As one would expect, rather than dampening immune activity, these enhance immune activity. There are instances in which immune stimulation has...

We just finished learning about how the antibiotics revolution got started, with the sulfa drugs. Now let's move on to the classes of antibiotics that were discovered in the middle of the 20th century, the penicillins and the...

Whiteclay, Nebraska is a tiny unincorporated town that sits on the border with South Dakota. Until its closure by state officials, its four liquor stores sold more than 4m cans of beer a year, almost entirely to members of Lakota Sioux...

In a new rule about coverage of contraception, the Trump administration argues that birth control is bad for your health. But it's a claim that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.

Can we keep drug prices low without hurting innovation? Well, drugs are a lot cheaper in Europe than in the US, and there's still plenty of innovation over there. So what's going on? It's called reference pricing, and it's pretty much...

My gift to you this Christmas is 25 British Bitesize Lessons. Lesson #17 is about the word STRAIGHT.

Decades of scientific research into Alzheimer’s have failed to find a cure. Little is known about the degenerative brain disease—but this may be about to change.

We've already discussed drug names, generic and "brand" ones. But are there differences beyond the words? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.