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
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...
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 10 Worst Examples of Healthcare Profiteering and Dysfunction
Each year, the Lown Institute gives out the Shkreli Awards, named for disgraced and imprisoned "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli. The awards go to the perpetrators of the most egregious examples of dysfunction and profiteering in healthcare....
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...
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...
SWPictures
The Deadly Combination: The New Spread of TB in South Africa
The Deadly Combination part 1/5: The video is about the impact of tuberculosis in South Africa, focusing on the story of a family affected by the disease. It highlights the challenges of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, while also...
SWPictures
New Drug Offers Hope in Fight Against Tuberculosis
The video discusses the global issue of tuberculosis and the efforts of Yanson Pharmaceuticals in Belgium to develop a new drug called TMC207 that could potentially revolutionize TB treatment.
Healthcare Triage
Shrooms and Smoking, Adult Drug Abuse, and Ebola: Healthcare Triage News
Shrooms to quit smoking, who's using drugs, and a clarification on Ebola. This is Healthcare Triage News.
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...
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
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...
Seven Dimensions
Creating a Safe and Professional Workplace Environment
In this video, the speaker discusses the issue of pornography on computers in the workplace and emphasizes the importance of establishing firm rules and a culture that promotes respect and professionalism.
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.
Healthcare Triage
Addyi Isn't that Effective, and it Isn't Selling Very Well
No studies this week. We're actually going to do news. It's time for an Addyi update. Addyi, or Flibanserin was touted as the "female Viagra" despite the fact that it isn't very similar to Viagra. It still doesn't work very well or for...
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.
Healthcare Triage
Cost Effectiveness in Medicine is not a Dirty Word
Last week, we discussed how to measure the utility value of different health states. These can be used as a proxy for quality in measuring how effective therapies are. How? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare triage.
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is our biological account of mental illness failing us?
From schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric diagnoses are real. But as the mental health epidemic turns global, the categories now seem like the cause. Is it time to abandon our biological account of mental illness? Or is...
Independent Producers
Women Veterans of Vietnam
Most of the more than 7,000 US women who served in Vietnam were nurses. In this public radio story you hear first hand from a woman who was a nurse in Vietnam. The experience had a strong impact on her life. She later realised she...
Catalyst University
Iontophoresis EXPLAINED Theory, Use, & Example with Calculations
In this video, we explore the theory, use, and parameters with drug delivery via iontophoresis.