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Rear-facing car seats do keep kids safer, but they can be hard to use for larger children. In Sweden, kids stay in backward facing seats a lot longer, and have fewer injuries. The study that encouraged American parents to turn their car...

A new study out in the Annals of Internal Medicine studied suicide cases in the United States between 2007 and 2014. The researchers were specifically examining the demographics associated with the methods and mortality rates of these...

I'm getting lots of tweets, emails, tests, etc. "Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children". The is Healthcare Triage News.

How much water should you drink every day? Not as much as you've been told. This summer, like many summers before it, has seen a rash of articles warning us not only that is dehydration is dangerous, but that it is also ubiquitous. Real...

Part four of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. It turns out, people have been resistant to the idea of vaccines pretty much since vaccines were invented. This...

The CDC's recommendations for women about alcohol and pregnancy caused an uproar on the internet recently. We've got Aaron's take on the situation.

When it comes to disparities research, I sometimes get angry at researchers that we're still spending so much time with studies pointing out disparities in medicine and so little time doing anything about them. I mean, is there anyone...

This year's influenza is really bad. Hospitalizations are up, and health departments in 49 states report widespread flu. Apparently, if you don't want the flu, go to Hawaii. Just kidding. You can still get a flu shot, and you don't have...

Trump's White House commission on opioid abuse recently released recommendations on dealing with the opioid epidemic. The report was notably short on ideas for preventing opioid abuse in the first place. That is not because there are no...

A couple weeks ago, John had a great Vlogbrothers video on racism. It was fantastic, and I assume all of you already watched, but if you didn't, you should. One of the things he mentioned is that differences in life expectancy can be...

We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're going to try. First up is the United States. Others will...

Have you heard the scary news reports of how people are going to taint kids' candy with pot now that it's getting more legal? There's no evidence for that. There's also no evidence that strangers poison kids' Halloween candy in general....

The video explores the thematic concerns of authority in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It contrasts the nurturing and protective authority figures in Innocence with the oppressive and restrictive figures in...

Hear the story of this chimp whose journey to the Little Rock Zoo resulted in a trip to the Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Social Learning Theory suggests that we learn not just by way of reward and punishment for actions, but instead we learn by observing others and imitating their behaviours. We watch, we copy, we practise. And one of the intriguing claims...

This video is the ninth installment of our Psychology Revision Series to prepare you for your exams with exactly the right information that you need to know.

This video explores a classic observational study of non-traditional parenting. Bettelheim (1964) spent 7 weeks on a Kibbutz studying communal parenting.

During the Chechen wars Dr Khassan Baiev saved the lives of thousands of men, women and children. For his work he was sentenced to death by the Russian and the Chechen rebels and fled to live in the USA. After the war, he returned to...

Belief in the power of witchcraft is pervasive and profoundly entrenched in many parts of Africa. In Tanzania we delve deep into the heart of the continent to investigate a nation that appears gripped by fear and persecution of...

Uganda is at a turning point in its fight against malaria. In Kampala’s Mulago hospital, a staggering percentage of admissions are due to malaria and it is the highest cause of death amongst patients. The parasite is becoming resistant...

This film provides a glimpse into the work being done in Malaysia, Sri Lanka & China to tackle Japanese encephalitis. In Malaysia we look at innovative diagnostic work in Malaysia and in Sri Lanka at the development of a vaccine that...

This program travels to Zambia and Papua New Guinea to explore the anti-HIV fight in those countries, where poverty and lack of education amplify the crisis. Zambia-born Agetha Lloyd, an HIV therapist, describes her WHO-backed campaign...

Thriving in more than 50 developing countries, mostly in Africa and Asia, trachoma is the leading cause of blindness in the world. It is at its worst in rural communities and women are its favourite victims. Trachoma is a bacterium that...