Healthcare Triage
What Kills Us? How We Understand Risk.
One of the things that baffles me about people is how they completely misunderstand risk. Lots of my friends panic about things that have no real chance of killing them, but ignore the things that will. This can lead us to make...
Catalyst University
Clinical Correlation Emphysema [DON'T SMOKE!]
Clinical Correlation Emphysema [DON'T SMOKE!]
Healthcare Triage
Survival vs Mortality Rates: Healthcare Triage #7
Almost every time someone wants to proclaim the US to be the "best in the world" in health care, they point to survival rates. Those refer to the percent of people who live a certain amount of time after they've been diagnosed with a...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Circulatory and Respiratory Systems: Problems of the Respiratory System
This video program explores the role of the body's circulatory and respiratory systems, emphasizing things we can do to maintain these important systems. Regular exercise, healthy eating habits, and not smoking are just a few of the...
The Wall Street Journal
How to Measure the Role of Cybersecurity Awareness
Highmark Health CISO, Omar Khawaja, discusses how businesses can establish the value their human risk mitigation program brings.
The Economist
How to spot the deadliest form of cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest of cancers. Screening could save thousands of lives, so why is it not the norm?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jack Andraka - Breakthrough How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World
JACK ANDRAKA was just a fifteen year old Maryland high school sophomore when he invented an inexpensive early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. Now, at seventeen, Jack’s groundbreaking results have earned him...
Rachel's English
CAN vs CAN'T with QUIZ
If you’re learning to speak American English one of the most common contractions—can’t—is one of the most difficult! In this American English pronunciation lesson, you’ll learn from multiple native speakers how to pronounce the word...
JJ Medicine
Coffee: Health Benefits (ex. Reduction of Cancer) and Risks (ex. Pregnancy)
Coffee: Health Benefits and Risks In this lesson, we discuss animal model findings, cohort studies and meta-analyses concerning health benefits (neurological protection, liver health, cancer reduction) and health risks of consuming coffee.
Catalyst University
How Can Smoking Cause Lung Cancer
Here, I present one of the most important mechanisms for the carcinogenic properties of cigarette smoking. P450-oxidized metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene damage DNA and can induce mutations leading to the uncontrolled cell growth associated...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Respiratory Problems
This video provides an overview of common respiratory problems and ailments that affect the human body. It discusses the causes and symptoms of respiratory issues such as the common cold, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, lung cancer, and...
Curated Video
Comparing Scenarios for Conditional and Unconditional Probability Events
In this lesson, we explore conditional probability and its difference from unconditional probability. We examine scenarios where events are dependent on previous occurrences. We also discuss the notation used for conditional probability...
Curated Video
How to detect the deadliest form of cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest of cancers. Screening could save thousands of lives, so why is it not the norm?
Healthcare Triage
You Can Do a Lot to Prevent Some Cancers
Americans seem very afraid of cancer. Much of this fear is legitimate. Cancer is a significant cause of death. Unlike other causes, it often seems to come out of nowhere. It's the "silent killer". But evidence increasingly argues that...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The State of Global Health
This is a video about the State of Global Health. Dr Greg Martin talks about a few of the major issues that need to be addressed.
Curated Video
Lung cancer remains the deadliest cancer in the US. Here's what you need to know
While smoke remains the biggest risk factor for being diagnosed with lung cancer, health officials say there are other risk factors such as excessive levels of radon gas in a home. A recently published study also revealed that another...
Curated Video
Possible breakthrough on lung cancer
Research into the treatment of lung cancer has achieved a possible breakthrough - after a new study showed survival times were nearly doubled for some patients - by combining the use of immunotherapy drugs with chemotherapy. Oncologists...
Curated Video
Dangerous radon gas levels
Researchers at the University of Calgary found one in eight homes in the city contained radon levels higher than Health Canada's acceptable limit.
Curated Video
Dangerous radon gas levels
Researchers at the University of Calgary found one in eight homes in the city contained radon levels higher than Health Canada's acceptable limit.
Curated Video
Investigating e-cigarettes: a less harmful way to smoke?
Mark Kelley of the fifth estate talks about his investigation into the e-cigarette industry, and where it may be heading
Curated Video
Cuba's Cutting-Edge Pharmaceuticals
Cuba has developed a vaccine against lung cancer and Americans are traveling through Canada to get access to the drug, but that could soon change.
Curated Video
'Euthanasia is not medical care': Dr. Paul Saba
Interview with a family physician and president of the Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice
Curated Video
Lung Cancer Action week: Lung cancer leads cancer deaths in New York
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in New York, according to the Department of Health.
Curated Video
Brainstorm Health 2024: The rise of cancer in young people
Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, OB-GYN; Co-host, SHE MD Dr. Kimmie Ng, Founding Director, Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Moderator: Erika Fry, Fortune