Stents are a popular treatment for angina pectoris, or chest pain usually resulting from narrowed arteries. Getting a stent is a serious procedure, with no small risk associated with it. And recent studies indicate that stents don't do...

Big Sugar, Big Money, and the Obfuscated Truth About Heart Disease

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in the United States. Because of that, billions of dollars are spent every year on medications that reduce your risk of disease and death. Compounding this problem, many of the risk...

American healthcare spending is still WAY higher than pretty much all other industrialized countries. But not that long ago, things were different. The US didn't spend nearly as much in this realm. What changed? Demographics? More...

Recently, there have been big, splashy headlines about how drinking ANY alcohol increases your risk of cancer. As usual, there's more to the story than the scary headline. Aaron looks at the studies that made all the news, and talks...

Epidemiological transition is the changing patterns of disease (and causes of death) seen in human history. Those of us interested in public health and global health need to understand that this process isn’t over. The epidemiology of...

Do you find yourself overlooking little medical issues, after all it can sometimes be a real effort to go see a doctor about something that's probably nothing? Well, maybe you shouldn't. Alltime 10s brings you 10 seemingly tiny health...

Biologists at the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences have found why COVID-19 patients with heart disease or diabetes are more likely to suffer serious complications

Have you ever wondered what causes a heart attack (technical term, myocardial infarction)? In this video, we discuss the general physiological mechanism of an MI (myocardial infraction).

This video uses systematic reviews and meta-analyses to provide an evidence-based approach [1] criticizing the United States’ view of sugar, fat, and cholesterol; and [2] discussing how sugar has always been the culprit in obesity and...

In this video, we discuss another type of pressure-volume loop in detail that you may encounter in your anatomy and physiology class.

What are we worried about in terms of health? What's really gonna kill us? How different is that from the past? All this and more on this week's Healthcare Triage News.

We've talked in the past about the positives of Marijuana use. What are the harms? From pregnancy effects to impaired driving to memory and concentration, Aaron will tell you how pot might hurt you.

What is the Frank-Starling Mechanism? We will discuss this by talking about the effects of preload, left ventricular stretch and elastic recoil, and changes in stroke volume.

One of the things that baffles me about people is how they completely misunderstand risk. Lots of my friends panic about things that have no real chance of killing them, but ignore the things that will. This can lead us to make...

This video promotes the benefits of hiking as a great way to get in shape while enjoying the outdoors. It highlights the numerous health benefits, including cardiovascular exercise, muscle strength, weight loss, and improved mental...

Hot on the heels of the popular first series, The Food Files returns to investigate the real health benefits and risks of the foods we eat. Foodie and health guru Nikki Muller travels back to the source of the food’s origins, and...

Barbershops have long played a significant social, economic, and cultural role in African-American life. Barbershops foster both confidentiality and camaraderie, which seems like a good environment to talk to men about hypertension.

What role can AI-powered algorithms play in detecting diseases? HeartFlow, a billion-dollar startup, shows us how AI is pushing the envelope in medical diagnoses.

How can technology help detect and eradicate the next virus? Executives from Verily and Moderna discuss software, AI tools and novel vaccine technologies to fight off infectious diseases.

The recent alcohol study made a lot of breathless headlines along the lines of "no amount of alcohol is safe!" Well, it turns out, there's some value to looking at the nuances of the study. Aaron Carroll takes a look at the details. Soak...

The world is facing a diabetes epidemic – with the disease linked to both genetic and lifestyle causes. India is set to become the diabetes capital of the world – with numbers set to double in a generation – while in Africa, efforts are...

Strokes are a major public health issue in Europe and are among the leading causes of death and long-term disability in all developed countries. Urgent action is needed to address the dramatically increasing clinical, economic and social...

This video is a tutorial for IELTS students on how to answer matching feature questions in the reading section. The teacher explains the importance of scanning skills and recognizing synonyms and paraphrases. The tutorial includes a...