The Wall Street Journal
The Global Race for a Vaccine and Drug
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, Dr. Julie Gerberding, chief patent officer at Merck and Dr. David Reese, executive vice president of research at Amgen discuss the race for coronavirus drug development at WSJ Tech Health.
Science360
NSF Science Now: Episode 45
In this episode, we tested out a computational design tool that transforms flat materials into 3-D shapes, a virtual reality environment that is helping autistic teens learn to drive, a new novel underwater microscope and, finally,...
TLDR News
Is One Metre of Social Distancing Really Enough? How Far Apart Should we Be? - TLDR News
This week the UK government changed its COVID guidance revising the adjusting to stay 2 meters apart to being only 1 meter apart. The thing is that some aren't convinced this is a good decision, with many worrying that it's too soon to...
Healthcare Triage
COVID-19 and Antibody Plasma Treatments
The FDA recently issued emergency use authorization for utilizing convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19. The idea is that using plasma from a donor who has recovered from Covid-19 has antibodies that can help treat patients who are sick...
Catalyst University
Disk Diffusion Test using Bacitracin or Optochin
In this video, I explain how to determine resistance (R) or susceptibility (S) in bacteria using the disk diffusion method (with bacitracin and optochin).
FuseSchool
How to use face masks
How to use face masks | FuseSchool Many people are wearing medical masks, thinking it will protect them from the new Coronavirus. But, medical masks alone cannot protect against infection. Without proper hygiene, use and disposal, they...
JJ Medicine
Yellow Fever | Pathogenesis (mosquitoes, virus), Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Lesson on Yellow Fever: Causes, Pathogenesis, Stages of Infection, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Management. Yellow Fever is a hemorrhagic fever due to an infection with a virus of the Flaviviridae family. This type of virus is transmitted by...
Professor Dave Explains
Mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr Virus)
We've all heard of mono. It's the kissing disease! But this term is a little minimizing and outdated. The disease is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, and there are lot more details regarding transmission and disease than can be...
Barcroft Media
The Woman Who's Allergic To Daylight
HIGHLAND, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: A young woman's skin blisters and burns if she is exposed to only a few minutes of daylight. Lizzie Tenney suffers from the rare, and extreme, skin disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum. With there only...
Barcroft Media
The Woman Who’s Allergic To Daylight | BORN DIFFERENT
A young woman’s skin blisters and burns if she is exposed to only a few minutes of daylight. Lizzie Tenney suffers from the rare, and extreme, skin disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum. With there only being around 300 diagnosed cases in the...
Next Animation Studio
Mutation may have made the coronavirus more infectious and less deadly: scientists
The coronavirus had bifurcated into G and A viruses when COVID-19 spread to California in March, according to new research.
Neuro Transmissions
What Are Microglia?
The brain is like a really fancy restaurant. Itês picky about who it lets inside. You have to be one of the privileged few. But even fancy restaurants need to be cleaned up and protected, right? Who does the dirty work? In this episode...
Catalyst University
Flattening the Curve | What Does it Really Mean?
This dissects in detail the meaning of the phrase, " Flattening the Curve", with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Curated Video
Plague and Prejudice: The Black Death in California
As the world grapples with new pandemics, what can we learn from the US’s mixed response to the Bubonic Plague, which arrived in San Francisco in 1900?
TLDR News
Is Johnson doing Enough to Fight Coronavirus Herd Immunity vs Isolation - TLDR News
Last week the UK government announced the country was moving to the next stage of their Coronavirus strategy. However, they caught a lot of flack for not doing enough, with the UK's strategy looking a lot less drastic than other major...
SWPictures
The Struggle to Breathe: Tackling Childhood Pneumonia in the Philippines
The Struggle to Breathe part 2/8: This video explores the causes of pneumonia and its impact on children, particularly in impoverished areas where pollution and malnutrition increase the risk of infection. The importance of vaccination...
Next Animation Studio
West Nile virus: How the virus spreads
Health authorities in several US states are warning people to take extra precautions when protecting against mosquito bites as West Nile virus has begun to appear in samples of mosquitoes collected in counties from California to...
SWPictures
SURVIVAL: A Healthy Start
Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. Bangladesh has one of the highest child mortality figures in the world. Fifty children a day die drowning. Fifty thousand a year are killed by diarrhoea. Yet a range of cheap...
JJ Medicine
Prostate Inflammation Signs & Symptoms (& Why They Occur)
Prostate Inflammation Signs & Symptoms (& Why They Occur) Prostate inflammation (prostatitis) is a condition involving a variety of causes of prostate inflammation. These include bacterial infections and urinary obstructive causes...
Next Animation Studio
Zika outbreak: How the Zika virus damages the brain
Three new experiments studying how Zika affects a developing fetus could provide proof of a causal link between the outbreak in Brazil and the spate of birth defects in babies that followed. The Los Angeles Times reports that the...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding and Draining an Abscess: A Medical Explanation and Demonstration
The video covers abscesses, explaining what they are, how they form, and how they are treated. The teacher uses a cadaver skin to illustrate the structure of the skin and the process of abscess formation, and also demonstrates the...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 27
It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About. In this science video: fabric fab for rehab, cooking up eruptions, down to the wire for virus testing, and why researchers want the Blues How pyroclastic flows cheat friction...
JJ Medicine
Beef Tapeworm (Taeniasis) | How It Infects, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention
Beef Tapeworm (Taeniasis) | How It Infects, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention Another lesson in the Tapeworm Infection Series! Tapeworms are gastrointestinal parasites that are flat in appearance and can look like a...
Curated Video
Understanding Health Issues: Causes, Interactions, and Data Insights
This is a video that discusses different factors that can affect an individual's health, including disease, diet, stress, life situations, and more. The video explains that different types of diseases may interact and cause additional...