The Wall Street Journal
The Search for New Drugs: Part I
The drug industry has long said high prices are necessary to fund innovation, but policymakers, payers and consumers are increasingly questioning that justification. Does the industry need to change its ways before tougher controls are...
The Wall Street Journal
The Health in Health Insurance
One way to cut health-care spending is to reduce how much care patients use. How are insurers using incentives, data, interventions and other innovations to help keep their members healthier and out of the hospital?
The Economist
How to treat covid-19
A vaccine for covid-19 is a long way off. In the meantime, could existing drugs be used to treat the novel coronavirus?
The Wall Street Journal
An Rx for Health Care: Part I
It's already part of presidential campaign slogans: "Medicare for all." But how exactly would that work?
Mazz Media
Talk It Out_Effects of Weed On Your Body and Brain
Using vintage footage, the program opens with a discussion of how peoples’ attitudes about marijuana have changed dramatically over the years, but the one thing is certain; marijuana changes the way the brain functions. Students will...
Curated Video
Create a computer vision system using decision tree algorithms to solve a real-world problem : Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes
From the section: Machine Learning: Part 2. In this section, we’ll cover Bayes Theorem, Naive Bayes, SVM and SVC to classify data. Machine Learning: Part 2: Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes
Curated Video
Frances Oldham Kelsey: Standing Up to Big Pharma
Meet Frances Oldham Kelsey - a true American hero! Frances was a pharmacologist working for the FDA who stood up to the big drug companies and ultimately saved thousands of American lives in the process.
Healthcare Triage
What's Happening with the Hydroxychloroquine Study Retraction?
A significant study on the safety of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 has been retracted. So, what does this mean? What does it say about using the drug to treat COVID? What does it say about the way we do science?
Healthcare Triage
Aduhelm is FDA Approved for Alzheimer's, But Does it Work?
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects millions of people in the US alone, so there was a lot of excitement about recent news headlines of a drug approved to treat the disease. However, the approval was met with an outcry from...
Catalyst University
Basics of Iontophoresis [+ Example Calculations]
In this video, we will explore the basic mechanism of iontophoresis and perform some calculations.
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: Underage Drinking, Dangers and Consequences
The program starts off with an explanation of what alcohol is, how it's produced, and its role as a celebratory beverage in our society. Students will come to understand the reasons alcohol is illegal to consume for persons under the age...
Healthcare Triage
Do Antidepressants Work or What?
A huge meta-analysis came out recently looking at how effective antidepressants actually are. It turns out, the results are complicated, and we had a hard time reducing all the stuff in this study to a headline. So, the title's a...
Science360
AN IN-MOUTH WAFER TO TREAT ORAL CANCER
To treat oral cancer, National Science Foundation-funded small business Privo Technologies has created a platform that delivers treatments directly to the affected area. Privo develops new classes of targeted treatments, such as...
Science360
Neon Cancer Detector
Professor Michael Sailor hopes to dramatically change how cancer is being treated. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is on a quest to create nanoparticles that travel the bloodstream, latch onto cancers in their...
Healthcare Triage
Antibiotics and Resistance
A century ago, the top three causes of death were infectious diseases. More than half of all people dying in the United States died because of germs. Today, they account for a few percent of deaths at most.
Catalyst University
Cardiac Pharmacology [Part 1] Statins & Diabetics Drugs
In this video, we discuss the basic mechanisms of action of cardiac drugs such as statins and diabetic medications.
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week Episode 14
Bilingual brains, computing clouds, a life-saving musical sensor and genome sequencing in medieval cemeteries. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week, all with funding from NSF. Musical sensor shows bad...
Weird History
Inside The CIAs MK Ultra Program
There are plenty of conspiracy theories out there about the CIA and, in particular, CIA mind control. When it comes to Project MKUltra, however, the conspiracies are frighteningly accurate. The public doesn’t have to rely on hearsay and...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A New National Innovation Fund
In part 5 of INET's interview with Fred Block, he says that the country needs all companies in a national innovation fund that helps pay for research into profitable products, and can insure that the public receives a return on its...
Healthcare Triage
The Shocking Truth About Surgical Placebos
In order for a drug to be approved by the FDA, it must prove itself better than a placebo, or fake drug. But when it comes to medical devices and surgery, the requirements aren't the same. Placebos aren't required. That is likely a...
Healthcare Triage
Doctors, Money, and Conflicts of Interest
I'm a doctor. My father is a doctor. My colleagues are doctors, the people I train are doctors, lots and lots of my friends are doctors. But that doesn't meant that doctors sometimes aren't blind to certain issues like their own...
Science360
Trapping blood clots to treat stroke
Strokes are primarily caused by blood clots in the blood vessels of the brain. An NSF-funded technology developed by Insera Therapeutics is designed to efficiently trap and remove these clots, even in some of the tiniest blood vessels....
The Wall Street Journal
Deep Dive: The Big Shift in AI-Driven Care
Can algorithms trained on data detect and diagnose diseases like Covid-19 better than humans? Tech executives discuss the potential of AI-driven tools to help in detecting and preventing medical conditions.
Next Animation Studio
Antidepressant can reduce sever COVID symptoms
The antidepressant fluvoxamine, sold under the brand name Luvox, could reduce risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms by almost a third in high risk patients.