Curated Video
The Subtleties of Medication
UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw describes how the practice of taking medication for ADHD and other conditions is far more subtle and complicated than most of us appreciate.
Curated Video
Resisting Mental Health Medication
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, and author of the bestselling memoir The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, highlights three reasons why mental health patients...
Curated Video
Encouraging Medication
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, highlights the challenges of getting mental health patients to take their medication, and the importance of gently encouraging them to do so.
Neuro Transmissions
How the war on drugs BLOCKS life-saving treatment
For a long time, American society has generally accepted the system in place that has protected us from the detrimental effects of scheduled drugs. But what if the "most dangerous drugs", Schedule 1 controlled substances, could actually...
Vlogbrothers
The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone
In which John visits the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the only dedicated mental health facility in the nation, and learns about the extraordinary changes that have taken place there in the last two years with...
Healthcare Triage
The Pitfalls of Cost Sharing for Healthcare
Cost-sharing is the practice of making individuals responsible for part of their health insurance costs beyond the monthly premiums they pay for health insurance - think things like deductibles and copayments. The practice is meant to...
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...
Neuro Transmissions
Why Do Placebos Work?
Placebos are treatments that donêt actually do anything. They have no medical effect and no active medicine. It's not a drug that is intended to improve your health. So why do they sometimes work? Well, it turns out your brain is super...
Healthcare Triage
Behavioral Economics Aren't that Convincing in Medicine
There have been a lot of stories about using behavioral economics to change wide array of human behaviors. Studies have looked at adherence to treatments, weight control, and lots of other areas, and have found that trying to change...
Healthcare Triage
The Opioid Crisis and the Way Forward
This is part 4 in our series on the opioid crisis, presented with support from the NIHCM Foundation. We've talked about the state of the opioid crisis, deaths of despair, and the disappointing evidence about marijuana as a treatment for...
Neuro Transmissions
The Neuroscience of Tourette Syndrome
Oh sh**, time to find out more about Tourette Syndrome! It's often portrayed in media with lots of swearing, but that's not the whole picture. Today, we're gonna find out a little more about what goes on in the brain. We have In_s Dawson...
The Telegraph
Smart drugs' epidemic as one in 12 adults admit taking them - with most trying them at work
One in 12 adults has taken "smart drugs" - with most trying them at work, a survey shows. Neuroscientists said growing numbers of people were turning to medication in a bid to cope with workload pressures. And they warned that the pills...
Healthcare Triage
Does Wegovy Help You Lose Weight?
Today we're talking about Wegovy, which is a new prescription drug approved to treat obesity. It's also called semaglutide, and it was initially approved to treat diabetes, but studies have indicated it is effective for weight loss....
Science360
Lab on a chip
In episode 22, Charlie and Jordan discuss a new way to diagnose asthma, a more affordable prosthetic knee and synthesizing bio-surfactants.
Science360
Preventing proteins in medications from clumping - Biotech's Future
Protein Dynamics Solutions LLC, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program, is developing a technology to address protein aggregation, a key bottleneck in the development of new...
Curated Video
The Medical Kit: How Innovation Transformed Medical Care on the Civil War Frontline
They empowered US Army medics to save countless lives – but how did the humble medical kit evolve with the American Civil War?
Healthcare Triage
Should You Panic about the Breast Cancer/Birth Control Stories?
No. It turns out, media outlets sometimes sensationalize connections like this. Hormonal birth control is safe, and while it does come with some risks, the benefits very often outweigh the downsides. Aaron has the numbers on just how...
Healthcare Triage
Research Studies Could Be More Pragmatic, and More Useful
Promising health studies often don’t pan out in reality. The reasons are many. Research participants are usually different from general patients; their treatment doesn’t match real-world practice; researchers can devote resources not...
FuseSchool
Barium Meals - Why Are They Useful?
Learn the basics about Barium meals, and why they are useful, as part of the uses of salts topic within acids and bases.
Barcroft Media
My Rare Dwarfism Makes Me 1 in 4 Million
A LOVEABLE 8-year-old boy has a form of dwarfism so rare he is believed to be one of only 28 cases in the world. Three-foot-tall Landen Johnson, from Lincolnton, North Carolina, has primordial dwarfism, one of the rarest forms of...
Catalyst University
Pulmonary Pharmacology [Part 1] | Sympathomimetics, Anti-muscarinics, & Methylxanthines
In this video, we explore the major classes of drugs that are used in the treatment of pulmonary disorders (asthma and COPD) along with their mechanisms of action. Specifically, we consider the classes of drugs that do not directly...
JJ Medicine
Medications to Avoid with Enlarged Prostate | Reduce Symptoms and Risk of Prostate Enlargement
An enlarged prostate (also known as Benign prostatic hyperplasia) is a relatively common condition that increases in prevalence as men get older. Certain medications (including common over the counter medications) can influence the...
Healthcare Triage
Buprenorphine Regulations and Better Treatment of Addiction
We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist...