JJ Medicine
Zinc Deficiency | Dietary Sources, Causes, Signs & Symptoms (ex. Hair Loss), Diagnosis, Treatment
Zinc Deficiency | Dietary Sources, Causes, Signs & Symptoms (ex. Hair Loss), Diagnosis, Treatment Zinc is an essential element required for human health, being utilized for nearly 100 different enzymes for a wide variety of functions,...
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Container Hospitals: Providing Safe Maternity Care in Haiti
This video showcases a container hospital in Haiti built by BioMed Science on the frontier to provide safe and hygienic workspaces for Haitian staff. The hospital specializes in caring for mothers and babies in danger, with over 300...
Healthcare Triage
Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy
Drinking during pregnancy is roundly frowned upon, for good reason. It's a huge risk factor for lots of post-natal problems. But prevention can be counter intuitive. Strong prohibitions and punitive measures for pregnant women who drink...
Healthcare Triage
Pregnancy and Covid Vaccine Safety
Pregnancy can be a scary time for many reasons, one of which is having so many things feel off-limits for the safety of the fetus. But what about vaccines? Especially the Covid-19 vaccine? To understand the answer to this question you...
JJ Medicine
Medical Terminology - The Basics, Lesson 1.2 - Numbers
Lesson on Medical Terminology: The Basics, Lesson 1.2 - Introduction to Numbers and Quantities. In this lesson, we discuss a variety of prefixes and suffixes that describe numbers 1-10, and prefixes/suffixes that describe quantities. We...
Curated Video
Hormone Interactions in the Menstrual Cycle
This video explains the hormone interactions involved in the menstrual cycle. It covers the four key hormones - follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), estrogen and progesterone - and their roles in preparing the...
Healthcare Triage
The CDC's Preachy Recommendations on Pregnancy and Alcohol. and the Internet's Overreaction
The CDC's recommendations for women about alcohol and pregnancy caused an uproar on the internet recently. We've got Aaron's take on the situation.
SWPictures
HIV Counselors in Kenya: Fighting Mother-to-Baby Transmission
The video follows HIV counselor as she works to prevent mother to baby transmission of HIV in the SU-2, which has the 3rd highest HIV prevalence in the world. Her job involves following up on those suspected of defaulting on treatment or...
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Community Health Workers in Bangladesh: Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate
This video showcases the work of community health workers in Bangladesh who are trying to reduce the number of women who die during childbirth. They identify pregnant women using simple urine tests and provide them with prenatal care,...
Curated Video
Contraception: Types and Examples
In this video, the concept of contraception is explained, which is the prevention of pregnancy. The video looks at various methods of contraception and explains how they work. The video looks at several examples of both types of...
Healthcare Triage
U.S. Maternal Mortality is Much Higher for African-Americans
In the US, too many moms are dying around the time of childbirth. Every year, more than 700 mothers die from complications related to pregnancy and delivery, leaving behind grieving families as well as urgent policy questions about how...
Healthcare Triage
Women on Web Move to Increase Access to Abortion Pills in the US
Women on Web is an organization that increases access to pharmaceutical abortion services in countries where those options are limited. The organization has now started a separate service that will fill prescriptions in the United States...
The Economist
Ireland: divided by abortion
Abortion is banned in Ireland in almost all circumstances, including rape and incest. On May 25th voters will have their say in a referendum that could repeal the ban.
The Business Professor
Pregnancy Discrimination Under Title VII
Pregnancy Discrimination Under Title VII
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SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Teenage Mums
For many girls around the world motherhood comes all too quickly – and often it can be dangerous. Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of death among teenage girls in developing countries. We went to India,...
Next Animation Studio
Australian James Harrison's rare blood saves more than 2 million babies
Australian man James Harrison is known as 'The Man with the Golden Arm' after his blood was used to develop an injection that has since saved the lives of an estimated two million babies from rhesus disease.
SWPictures
SURVIVAL: Fit for Life
Bangladesh has one of the highest child mortality figures in the world. Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. We follow two young women in Bangladesh who face very different experiences of pregnancy, childbirth...
Curated Video
From Duschene to Oprah: The Journey of a Media Mogul
Cathy's Triumph part 2/4: This video is a personal account of Oprah Winfrey's life experiences and how they influenced her journey to becoming a successful media entrepreneur. She talks about her education at Duchen Academy and the...
Healthcare Triage
What is Zika? What Should You Do About It?
What is Zika? Should you be afraid? We try not to fall into the trap of discussing the "panic du jour" on Healthcare Triage, but sometimes people are concerned about things they should be concerned about. But it's still important for...
Healthcare Triage
Dates, Raspberry Leaf Tea, and Myths about Labor and Delivery
Pregnancy comes with a lot of advice concerning everything from how to determine the sex of the baby to how to ease both pregnancy symptoms and the oft-dreaded task of labor and delivery. Most of these stand on little to no evidence, but...
Healthcare Triage
Weight Gain, Low-Calorie Sweeteners, and Responsible Translation of Research
A press release on a recently published scientific study has been catching clicks with the headline “low-calorie sweeteners do not mean low risk for infants, new research shows the impact ‘diet’ ingredients have on body weight and gut...
Barcroft Media
Living as a Polyamorous Triad: A Unique Family's Journey
This video showcases the unique and loving relationship of a polyamorous triad consisting of Buddy, Rose, and Lauren. They have been together for four years, raising their four sons as one family. They share the challenges and joys of...
AllTime 10s
10 Science Myths That 99% Of People Believe
Our society seems to be getting more science-literate by the day. But even as most of us start to grasp increasingly advanced ideas, some flat out falsehoods just won't go away. From Big Bang beliefs to sexing away the fat, here are 10...
STAT
The terrible burden of microcephaly, on a child, and his parents
Christine Grounds and Jonathan Mir's son, Nicholas, has microcephaly. Christine says that if she had known that Nicholas had the condition before he was born nine years ago, she would have terminated the pregnancy.