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COVID: What Happens If We Never Discover a Vaccine? - TLDR News.
We're all locked inside at the moment because we're concerned about the spread of the Coronavirus, and it looks like we're going to have to stay where we are until the situation changes. One way this could happen is through the...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
RU486 Abortion Ban in Australia
Ms Represented is a series that charts the rise of Australian female politicians over the last one hundred years and the unbelievable things they got up to along the way. What does Telstra have to do with abortion access? Episode 3, part 5
Mazz Media
The Truth About Smoking: Short and Long-Term Effects of Tobacco Use
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, societal, and health implications of smoking cigarettes. It outlines the evolution of attitudes towards smoking, the addictive nature of nicotine, the harmful chemicals in...
Healthcare Triage
What is Flibanserin (AKA "Female Viagra")?
"Female Viagra" and regular or "male" Viagra were both originally investigated as treatments for conditions other than sexual dysfunction. Viagra came out of studies on hypertension, and "female Viagra" for depression. But that's where...
Science360
Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, & urban air “re-leaf”
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 33 Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, and urban air “re-leaf.” It’s four awesome discoveries you probably didn’t hear about. Guitar...
Global Ethics Solutions
Signs and Symptoms of Substance Abuse (Part 2)
This presentation covers the signs and symptoms of substance abuse in the workplace including the emotional, behavioral, physical signs as well as how to recognize them.
Science360
Faster, more sensitive imaging of live cells – Biotech’s future
Developing new drugs means researchers must observe how cells react to those drugs over extended periods of time. NSF-funded small business Phi Optics has developed an optical microscope that lets scientists do just that -- study living...
Healthcare Triage
Antibiotic Resistance: What Can You Do?
The impact of antibiotics on human health cannot be overstated. They are a big deal. And thanks to evolution, more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Is there anything we can do? Yes. Let's talk about it.
Bill Carmody
Richard Branson on Solving the World's Problems
This video emphasizes the importance of companies using their entrepreneurial skills to address and solve the world's problems. They argue that businesses should strive to be more than just money-making machines and that by adopting a...
The Economist
The agony and ecstasy: how MDMA is being used to treat PTSD
MDMA, the active ingredient in the party drug ecstasy, is being touted as a game-changing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. It is being trialled in America—and for one army veteran the drug has been a life-saver.
Healthcare Triage
Can We Use Antibodies to Treat Covid-19?
Potential vaccines for the coronavirus are all over the news right now, and we all hope that a safe an effective vaccine is developed soon. But vaccines aren't the only tool in the pipeline. Right now there's a lot of research happening...
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation and Regulation of Monopolies
We've all played the board game monopoly. Perhaps surprisingly, this is a pretty good introduction regarding the concept of a monopoly in economics. This is a situation when a single seller dominates a market. How do monopolies come...
Curated Video
The Process of Drug Testing and Trials
This video provides an overview of the process of testing and trialing new drugs before they can be prescribed to the general public. It explains the preclinical testing phase, then describes the three stages of clinical trials. The...
Global Health with Greg Martin
HIV - an exceptional epidemic? An interview with Prof Alan Whiteside
Is the HIV / AIDS epidemic exceptional? Should the global health response be differentiated from mainstream health interventions? Dr Greg Martin interview Prof Alan Whiteside who talks about a paper that he published in Globalization and...
Mazz Media
Let's Talk About: Alcohol
This program presents information about the use and abuse of alcohol and how it affects a person’s body and brain. Designed specifically for young learners, the program provides students with simple illustrations of how alcohol can...
Science360
Biophysical Chemist - Rommie Amaro
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? You're about to find out! In this episode of ""Profiles of Scientists and Engineers"", Rommie Amaro tells us what it's like to be a biophysical chemist. She combines biology,...
Science360
3D Proteins: Getting The Big Picture
Proteins are the workhorses of cells. With support from the National Science Foundation, University of Arkansas biochemist James Hinton has been researching their structure and function for decades. Back in the 1990's, he had a vision to...
Healthcare Triage
The Reality of Legal Weed and Crime Increases
There has been a lot of news lately about increasing crime in states where recreational marijuana has been legalized. Crime is rising in some of these states, but it doesn't seem to be tied to the legal weed.
Healthcare Triage
A Vaccine for Malaria!
Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...
Healthcare Triage
Number Needed to Harm: Treatments Can Hurt You
Last week, we discussed the NNT, or number needed to treat. I'm sure it made a lot of you upset to realize that many therapies you've been sold as "awesome" were, in fact, somewhat incremental with respect to benefits. But another...
Professor Dave Explains
The Birth of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Earlier in the series we talked about how it was the artificial dye industry that gave way to the pharmaceutical industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Let's now examine the first large pharma companies to emerge, and the...
Professor Dave Explains
The Antibiotics Revolution Part 2: Penicillins and Cephalosporins
We just finished learning about how the antibiotics revolution got started, with the sulfa drugs. Now let's move on to the classes of antibiotics that were discovered in the middle of the 20th century, the penicillins and the...
Barcroft Media
My Handbag Keeps Me Alive
For 24 hours a day, Lauren Spencer has life-saving medication being pumped directly into her heart. The 18-year-old from Lodi, California has a condition known as Pulmonary Hypertension - a form of high blood pressure that affects the...
Healthcare Triage
Making Drugs Cheaper Without Stifling Innovation -- Euro Style
Can we keep drug prices low without hurting innovation? Well, drugs are a lot cheaper in Europe than in the US, and there's still plenty of innovation over there. So what's going on? It's called reference pricing, and it's pretty much...