SciShow
Why Do Fevers Get Worse at Night?
If you’ve ever noticed that being sick often sucks more at night, that wasn’t your imagination. Fevers do often rise at night! Why do our bodies do that? Is there a reason we have to suffer more?
TED Talks
TED: Live drawings of the human experience | Jarrett J. Krosoczka
In this live drawing performance and poignant autobiographical journey, author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka sketches some life-shaping moments, showing us how drawing and storytelling can help us honor and remain close to those...
SciShow
How Do You Know If You Have Food Poisoning?
Most of us have experienced food poisoning, but with 31 unique species of bacteria, viruses, and parasites as common culprits, it's hard to know exactly what it is.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder - Joelle Maletis
Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Philip A. Chan: How close are we to eradicating HIV?
The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: eradicating HIV. And to do this, we won't even have to cure the disease. We simply have to stop HIV from being transmitted until...
TED Talks
TED: A young scientist's quest for clean water | Deepika Kurup
Deepika Kurup has been determined to solve the global water crisis since she was 14 years old, after she saw kids outside her grandparents' house in India drinking water that looked too dirty even to touch. Her research began in her...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? | Elizabeth Cox
It's 1843, and a debate is raging about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever— no one knows what causes it. One physician has observed patients with inflammation go on to develop childbed fever, and therefore believes...
TED Talks
TED: The tragedy of air pollution -- and an urgent demand for clean air | Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah
Breathing clean air is every child's human right, says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seven-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, whose asthma was triggered to a fatal point by air...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to 3D print human tissue | Taneka Jones
There are currently hundreds of thousands of people on transplant lists, waiting for critical organs like kidneys, hearts and livers that could save their lives. Unfortunately, there aren't enough donor organs available to fill that...
SciShow
Can Vitamin C and Zinc Help Cure Colds?
You’ve probably heard that taking vitamin C or zinc will keep you from getting sick, but it turns out that those popular cure-alls don't actually work.
TED Talks
TED: Every day you live, you impact the planet | Jane Goodall
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says that humanity's survival depends on conservation of the natural world. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, she tells the story of her formative days working with chimpanzees, how she...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can steroids save your life? | Anees Bahji
Steroids: they're infamous for their use in sports. But they're also found in inhalers, creams to treat poison ivy and eczema, and shots to ease inflammation. The steroids in these medicines aren't the same as those used to build muscle....
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How high altitude affects your body | Andrew Lovering
If you teleported from sea level to the top of Mount Everest, things would go bad fast. At an altitude of 8,848 meters, you would likely suffocate in minutes. However, for people that make this journey over the course of a month, it's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine. We use them to cure infectious diseases, and to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. But we’ve stopped discovering new ones...
TED Talks
Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care
How would you prefer to spend the last years of your life: in a sterile, hospital-like institution or in a village with a supermarket, pub, theater and park within easy walking distance? The answer seems obvious now, but when Yvonne van...
SciShow
5 Things Your Nails Can Say About Your Health
Your nails can do more than just look pretty. They can tell you some things about your health!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Which is better: Soap or sanitizer?
Your hands, up close, are anything but smooth. With peaks and valleys, folds and rifts, there are plenty of hiding places for a virus to stick. If you then touch your face, the virus can infect you. But there are two extraordinarily...
SciShow
Why Does My Voice Crack?
Have you experienced embarrassing voice cracking? Most people have, and there’s a lot of reasons why you might be affected. From illness, stress, and good old puberty.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Will there be another pandemic in your lifetime? | TED-Ed
We tend to think of pandemics as unlikely events, but disease outbreaks are surprisingly common. Over the past 400 years, the longest stretch of time without a documented outbreak was just four years. So, what's the probability of...
TED Talks
TED: Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD? | Rebecca Brachman
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment that may prevent...
TED Talks
TED: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor | Raj Panjabi
Illness is universal -- but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. With the 2017 TED Prize, Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: When is a pandemic over?
Consider the following scenario: a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infects humans for the first time. It spreads rapidly worldwide, and the WHO declares a pandemic. The death toll starts to rise and everyone is...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? | Christopher E. Gaw
Nearly 3,000 years ago, a Babylonian tablet described a curious illness called "miqtu" that caused symptoms ranging from facial twitching to full body convulsions. Today we know miqtu as seizures, and modern medicine has developed...
Crash Course
Health & Medicine: Crash Course Sociology
Our final unit of Crash Course Sociology is medical sociology. Today we’ll explain what it is and get an overview of the role of society in our notions of health and disease.