SciShow
3 Things We Can Do to Stop Ebola
SciShow News explains the science behind the latest efforts to stop the spread of ebola: including airport screenings, treatments for patients, and developments in the search for a vaccine.
SciShow
How To Make Antivenom
Bitten by a venomous snake? There's hope! French scientist Albert Calmette developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s, and did such a good job that we use his technique to this day. Antivenom works by stimulating the...
SciShow
Human Connectome
Hank briefs us on a fascinating project that aims to map the anatomical and functional pathways of the brain - a neural network called the human connectome.
PBS
HIV/AIDS: What Can We Learn From America's Last Epidemic?
America's last major epidemic was the HIV/AIDS crisis of 1980s and 1990s. In order to better understand our current circumstances, Danielle is looking back at the legacies of action and inaction surrounding HIV/AIDS and how the...
Nature League
Should We Keep Using Lab Rats? The Debate Over Model Organisms
This week on Nature League, Brit discusses the concept of model organisms and offers some arguments for and against their use. Get your Critically Endangered Sharks poster here! Only on sale through May 30th.
Neuro Transmissions
UCSD Scientists Explain How They Spend NIH Funds
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does that NIH money get spent? This week, we interviewed some UCSD Neuroscientists to tell you about...
Neuro Transmissions
How the NIH Funds American Science
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does NIH money go? This week, we heard from scientists across the country about their NIH funded...
Healthcare Triage
Women and Minorities Get Fewer NIH Research Grants
The peer review process for awarding NIH grants has some problems. Less money is being awarded, and the buying power of the NIH has declined. What's going on with the peer review system?
Neuro Transmissions
What Are Overhead Payments?
The administration has proposed a cut of nearly $6 billion to the NIH budget in 2018. They say that no research will be directly affected because the NIH budget will trim inefficient, "wasteful" overhead payments. But what are those...
Curated Video
CRISPR Cure For Sickle Cell May Be Slowed By Black Patients' Mistrust
CRISPR may be a cure, but clinical trials may lack volunteers because of black patients' mistrust of biased and unethical medical practices.
Curated Video
Possible Coronavirus Treatments Include Cloned Antibodies, Vaccines
While the CDC says risk to Americans is still low, U.S. researchers and scientists are hard at work exploring possible treatments for coronavirus.
Curated Video
Largest COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Underway
This week, researchers began testing 30,000 test subjects in the NIH’s and drugmaker Moderna’s Phase 3 clinical trials
on a virus vaccine.
Curated Video
NIAID Director Says U.S. Coronavirus Testing System 'Is A Failing'
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the testing system in the U.S. "is not geared to what we need right now."
Curated Video
NIH Doctor Says Vaccines 'Not A Very Good Match' For Common Flu Strain
The country's top infectious disease doctor says this year's vaccine is only a 58% match for influenza B/Victoria, which most often affects kids.
Curated Video
Study: 5 States Had Virus Infections Before First Reported Cases
The study looked at antibody samples from Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Curated Video
5.9 Million Doses Of Moderna's COVID Vaccine Roll Out This Week
The second emergency-approved COVID-19 vaccine makes its way into the arms of Americans.
Curated Video
Fauci: Holiday Travel Likely to Fuel More Surges
Fauci says restrictions will likely need to remain in place as
Christmas travel spreads virus and keeps pressure on overworked health care system.
Bloomberg
Fauci Says Assume Any Covid-19 Vaccine Will Offer 'Finite' Protection
Jul.06 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House coronavirus task force member and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says any vaccine developed to ward off the novel coronavirus would likely be limited in how...
Curated Video
HHS Reallocates $860M To Cover Pandemic Costs At Border Facilities
COVID funding meant for the National Institutes of Health will instead cover pandemic-related costs for minors and staff along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Curated Video
Why Are More Women Dying From Alcohol Use?
More women are dying from drinking alcohol, according to a recent NIH study.
Curated Video
Therapeutic Drug Could Help Keep COVID-19 Patients Off Ventilators
AT-100 could help keep COVID-19 patients from going into respiratory distress and off of ventilators.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What I Do and How Much I Make
Dr. Matthew Goers shares how he is using his medical training and passion for public health to combat diseases around the world. Learn about his joint roles as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control...