TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine. We use them to cure infectious diseases, and to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. But we’ve stopped discovering new ones...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The dangers of mixing drugs | Céline Valéry
Which of the following is risky behavior: a person taking cholesterol medicine with grapefruit juice? Or a person taking Acetaminophen before going out for drinks? Or a person on blood thinners who takes an aspirin? Turns out, all of...
TED Talks
TED: Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD? | Rebecca Brachman
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment that may prevent...
SciShow
What Happens If You Use Your Feces as Fertilizer?
Being able to use human feces as fertilizer could be really helpful for human colonies on other planets. It could also be useful for human colonies on THIS planet! And who doesn’t love recycling!?
TED Talks
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. Read Montague gives an overview of how this...
PBS
Why Are Prescription Drugs SO Expensive?
Why are prescription drugs so expensive in the United States? Why does the same medication cost significantly less in other countries around the world? Today Danielle examines the history of pharmaceutical regulation in America and how...
Nature League
Exploring Biodiversity | Compilation
Brit looks back on our second month on Nature League, when we explored the theme of biodiversity.
Healthcare Triage
When Drug Costs Are High, Patients Skip Doses
The idea behind cost-sharing in healthcare costs goes something like this: If the patient is responsible for some part of the cost of their care, they'll be more judicious in their choices of treatment, and healthcare spending will...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Wendy Brown on Healthcare.
Neoliberalism, warns Professor Wendy Brown, has created a form of reasoning in which human beings are reduced to their economic value and activity, and in which all fields of human activity are treated as markets and institutions,...
Science360
ReNUWIt: Changing the way we manage urban water
The Mines Park apartment complex may look like typical student housing but these apartments are pioneering new water treatment methods for a cleaner future. Wastewater from this complex isn't actually wasted. This is one of the pilot...
Curated Video
Frances Oldham Kelsey: Standing Up to Big Pharma
Meet Frances Oldham Kelsey - a true American hero! Frances was a pharmacologist working for the FDA who stood up to the big drug companies and ultimately saved thousands of American lives in the process.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A New National Innovation Fund
In part 5 of INET's interview with Fred Block, he says that the country needs all companies in a national innovation fund that helps pay for research into profitable products, and can insure that the public receives a return on its...
Science Buddies
Why Aren't All Medicines Pills?
No one likes shots, so why don't we swallow all our medications? This video will show how you can use a model to explore one challenge behind making medications we can quickly swallow, using insulin (a medication taken by some diabetes...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Martin A. Lee - The Essential Guide to CBD
Martin A. Lee is the co-founder and director of Project CBD and the author of several books, including Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana–Medical, Recreational and Scientific, which received the American Botanical Council’s...
The Wall Street Journal
Jim Continenza On Kodak's Comeback Plan
Kodak CEO Jim Continenza and WSJ Deputy Chief News Editor Darren Everson discuss the company's transformation and expansion into pharmaceuticals at WSJ Tech Live.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Big Lessons for Business
In part 5 of INET's interview with John Kay, he discusses the idea of how the story of the British Post War pharmaceutical industry shows that most profitable companies are not the most profit-oriented
Curated Video
Evaluating Negative Production Externalities: A Step-by-Step Explanation
The video discusses negative production externalities, specifically in the context of industrial pollution. The video also discusses the importance of evaluating the magnitude of the externality and how it can be influenced by the type...
Healthcare Triage
Empowering Pharmacists to Address Excess Medications
For a lot of patients, prescriptions build up over time, and older people end up taking A LOT of different drugs. Doctors don't always have the time or will to assess these mounting prescriptions. Empowering pharmacists to recommend...
FuseSchool
The Haber Process - the Uses of Ammonia
Learn about the Haber Process and the uses of Ammonia within the overall reactions topic.
Science360
Processing human urine to recycle nutrients into fertilizer - Science Nation
Engineering a system that transforms human urine from a waste product into a fertilizer for more sustainable agriculture
This sustainable agriculture research relies on a unique contribution from humans -- urine. And, once you get...
Ancient Lights Media
Taiwan
Video Atlas of Asia: This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Taiwan.
Bloomberg
CVS, Walgreens Pharmacists Could Walk Off Job
Thousands of pharmacists at CVS and Walgreens could go on strike in an effort to improve working conditions and staffing levels. Shane Jerominski is an independent pharmacist. He's on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."
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Bloomberg
Ozempic Could Impact Food Company Earnings
A new class of weight-loss drugs has rattled global equity markets, sending shares of everything from food and beverage companies to medical-device makers tumbling. As earnings season kicks into high gear, firms are expected to reveal if...
Bloomberg
How Will We Pay For Miracle Cures?
Gene therapies are considered miracle cures, but their exorbitant costs, which could exceed $12 billion, might hinder access for those in need. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lisa Jarvis highlights how two gene therapies awaiting FDA...