TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan: This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait
Health headlines are published every day, sometimes making opposite claims from each other. There can be a disconnect between broad, attention-grabbing headlines and the often specific, incremental results of the medical research they...
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How We Go from Animal Model to Clinical Trial
Testing new treatments in other animals can help us spot complications or potential pitfalls, but the results don’t always carry over to humans, which means that safely going from animal to human trials is a lot more complicated than you...
TED Talks
Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?
(NOTE: Statements in this talk have been challenged by scientists working in this field. Please read "Criticisms & Updates" below for more details.) Psychologist Philip Zimbardo asks, "Why are boys struggling?" He shares some stats...
TED Talks
TED: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer | Paula Hammond
Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle one-hundredth the size...
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Bath Salts
Hank talks about the scary new drug that's led to some recent incidences of goat stabbing, as well as other tragedies - bath salts. We learn how it works and ask the important question: why?
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The Truth About 'Truth Serum'
Sodium pentothal, the so-called "truth serum,' is real! But does it work? Find out what "truth serums' do, and how your brain lets you tell lies.
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Ketamine Gets Controversial FDA Approval for Depression Treatment SciShow News
The FDA has approved a whole new class of antidepressant, and ultrasounds might be far more useful than we thought.
TED Talks
Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn't happen quickly enough to allow recovery from degenerative conditions like...
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This Is Your Brain On Food | Compilation
Food provides our bodies with the energy to go about our daily tasks, but we don't eat only for our physical health. Our brains are also deeply connected to our food.
TED Talks
Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers?
Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to...
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The Woman Who Changed Drug Development
From a new method of drug design to an antiviral agent for herpes, Gertrude Elion's works totally transformed the world of drug development.
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Does Hand Sanitizer Create Superbugs?
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are an effective way to kill a myriad of potentially harmful microbes. But is there a risk of germs becoming resistant to this ubiquitous liquid?
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How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever
Aspirin isn't just an old medicine cabinet stand-by, it's one of the oldest medicines we humans learned how to make ourselves. And our research into aspirin did more than just make it better at relieving pain, it opened the door to whole...
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Why Does Lithium Help Bipolar Disorder?
There’s no doubt that lithium has a diverse list of uses. But the way that it interacts with our bodies to help treat bipolar disorder is aiding us in better understanding the disorder and potentially developing new drugs to combat it.
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7 Medicines That Come from Super Toxic Critters
Scorpion venom and insect poison sound really deadly, but scientists are increasingly turning them into medical treatments that save millions of lives. Chapters CAPTOPRIL 1:18 SOUTH AMERICAN PIT VIPER Credit: Renato Augusto Martins 1:33...
TED-Ed
How do antidepressants work? | Neil R. Jeyasingam
In the 1950s, the discovery of two new drugs sparked what would become a multi-billion dollar market for antidepressants. Neither drug was intended to treat depression at all— many doctors and scientists believed psychotherapy was the...
TED Talks
TED: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer | Laura Indolfi
Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura Indolfi is developing a revolutionary way to treat this...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives. But most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we...
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A Deadly Mistake That Led to Safer Medicine | Elixir Sulfanilamide
In the 1930s, a mistake that cost over a hundred lives helped usher in a new era of safer medicine.
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Why Can't Kids Just Take Smaller Doses of Adult Meds?
You might have noticed that lots of drugs have special children’s formulas, and you might think that’s because smaller people need smaller doses. But you’d be wrong! Because kids aren’t just tiny adults.
TED Talks
TED: Body parts on a chip | Geraldine Hamilton
It's relatively easy to imagine a new medicine -- the hard part is testing it, and that can delay promising new cures for years. In this well-explained talk, Geraldine Hamilton shows how her lab creates organs and body parts on a chip,...
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Placebos & Nocebos: How Your Brain Heals and Hurts You
You've probably heard how some drugs and treatments make people feel better, even when they turn out to be fake. That's the placebo effect, but how does it work? And could the same effect backfire, causing your brain to make you feel...
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How Gene Therapy Could Revolutionize Addiction Treatment
Cocaine addiction is difficult to treat, but with the help of gene therapy, scientists are hoping to change that
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TED-Ed: How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
In 1960, Frances Kelsey was one of the Food and Drug Administration's newest recruits. Before the year was out, she would begin a fight that would save thousands of lives - though no one knew it at the time. Andrea Tone explains how...