The medical industry has developed countless methods and tools for diagnosing the myriad of illnesses that can befall us. This, as you might guess, includes cancer. But it took a research team five months to diagnose this specific cancer...

In 1982, a young nurse was suffering from severe, unrelenting depression. She couldn’t work, socialize or concentrate. One controversial treatment changed everything: after two courses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) her symptoms...

Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to...

You may have heard that facing your fears is the best way to overcome them, but there’s a little more to it than that.

Today we're going to discuss how machine learning can be used to group and label information even if those labels don't exist. We'll explore two types of clustering used in Unsupervised Machine Learning: k-means and Hierarchical...

Paruresis or “Shy Bladder Syndrome” is the inability to pee in public. If this sounds like you, have hope; it’s super treatable!

We need to change how we prescribe drugs, says physician Daniel Kraft: too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't work. In a talk and concept demo, Kraft shares his vision for a future of...

When talking about the brain, neurons have been dazzling scientists for a long time. But behind every successful neuron is a glial cell - particularly one type of them: microglia.

Hypnosis: that's just a fun gimmick for stage shows and plot twists, right? Well, turns out there might be more to it.

As 18th-century science and medicine brought properties of electricity to light, some Victorian doctors decided that putting sick people in a bathtub and shocking them might be a good idea.

Remote mental health services have been around for a while, long before the pandemic. So, we've had plenty of time to study how well they work, and there are some encouraging findings.

Working in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, he began his career as a neurologist before pioneering the discipline of psychoanalysis, and his influence towers above that of all other psychologists in the public eye. But was Sigmund...

You might’ve heard people talking about how awesome psychotherapy can be, but is it actually effective?

Many studies have shown that pets can relieve anxiety, stress, and provide comfort, but why pet therapy is effective has a lot more to do with us than our furry pals.

Psychologists have been using animals in therapy for a long time, but cats and dogs aren’t the only options. Hippotherapy, also known as equine therapy, uses horses in therapies for everything from cerebral palsy to PTSD.

Thanks, in part, to the generous support of the NIHCM, this month we are releasing four special episodes on Opioids. We hope you enjoy them. This week's episode:

For many, many years we've been hearing about gene therapy - the chance that we can get into people's DNA and fix it to resolve problems and fix disease. In a recent piece in Science, Stuart Orkin and Philip Reilly discuss what finally...

With all the recent studies of medical marijuana and its benefits, some researchers have become interested in researching the use of psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA for treating mental illness. It's hard to research though,...

A few more patients are cured of Ebola in the US, and placebos can help kids with the cold. This is Healthcare Triage News.

From funding rehearsals and practices to covering massages and therapy, Saweetie believes artists deserve treatment more in line with professional athletes. Hear her full perspective and morein this episode of Boardroom Talks.

Coffee and a smile are sometimes the best medicine. When Dan Dewey's father was being treated for cancer, Dan found himself following a routine in a situation which needed a little perking up.



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The hall lights dim…..a hush comes over the audience … the command “places everyone” is given… there is a palpable stillness in the air as the first notes of the opening piece float out of the speakers...

Do you ever wonder what a day in the life of a therapy dog is like? In the OGTV Original Series, "Sullivan's Travels”, a golden retriever therapy dog named Sullivan Travolta takes us along with her as she...

Giant video display boards, human sized cartoon characters, subway stations, police on horseback, the Naked Cowboy, 42nd Street, massive New Year’s Eve celebrations… there’s only one Times Square. All this and...