PickVidsBest Medicine & infectious disease Videos
The 141 Medicine & infectious disease videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 18 intermediate, 120 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Low Carb Down Under, LastWeekTonight.
David Sinclair | Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To | Talks at Google
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair discusses his book Lifespan at Google.
Evidence-Based Weight Loss: Live Presentation
Dr.
All you need to know to understand 5G
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains how 5G works and examines the health concerns around millimeter wave radiation.
Vitamin D and Immunity, Lots of Evidence
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Coronavirus Update 98: Rapid COVID 19 Antigen Testing at Home - A Possible Breakthrough
MedCram's Dr.
Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?
Medlife Crisis examines why some elite endurance athletes die in their sleep, covering extremely slow heart rates and the effects of performance-enhancing drugs that thicken blood.
Dr. Matthew Phillips - 'Metabolic Strategies as Therapies in Cancer and Neurodegeneration'
Neurologist Dr.
How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & COVID 19 Treatment
A pulmonologist and critical care physician explains how COVID-19 can lead to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
John Green explains why the US spends far more on health care than other countries, going through insurers, drug companies, hospitals and lawyers.
Milton Friedman Speaks: The Economics of Medical Care (B1234) - Full Video
Milton Friedman lectures to physicians on the economics of medical care, arguing that government involvement raises costs and leads toward socialized medicine.
How the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
Biochemist Nick Lane gives a Royal Institution lecture arguing that the Krebs cycle is central to what makes cells alive, not just genetic information.
FoodGate: The Break-in, the Cover-up, & the Aftermath
A UCTV panel with endocrinologist Robert Lustig, dentist Cristen Kearns and health policy expert Laura Schmidt on how the US food system and sugar industry influence diet and health, including industry efforts to shape the science.
Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound | 60 Minutes
A 60 Minutes report on neurosurgeon Ali Rezai using focused ultrasound on the brain to treat Alzheimer's and addiction.
Joe Rogan Experience #1439 - Michael Osterholm
Joe Rogan interviews epidemiologist Michael Osterholm in March 2020 about the coronavirus.
Exponential growth and epidemics
A short 3Blue1Brown primer on exponential and logistic growth, using early COVID-19 case data to show how epidemics grow and eventually level off.
A Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
Chubbyemu narrates the true case of a professor who spilled two drops of dimethylmercury on her hand and suffered fatal neurological damage.
Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how pharmaceutical companies spend billions marketing drugs to doctors.
Is 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
ElectroBOOM examines whether 5G and other electromagnetic waves can harm people, explaining the EM spectrum and the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
A man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell
Chubbyemu presents a case study of a man who followed AI health advice, replaced salt with sodium bromide and developed bromism with severe neurological effects.
Martin Shkreli on Drug Price Hikes and Playing the World’s Villain
A VICE interview with Martin Shkreli about the 5000 percent price hike on a drug for AIDS-related infections and his role as the world's villain.
Project "Iron Auntie" Success! Helping one of the last polio survivors in an iron lung.
Naomi Wu documents her project helping Martha Lillard, one of the last polio survivors living in an iron lung, by fabricating replacement neck collars in Shenzhen.
How dangerous are magnetic items near an MRI magnet?
A three-minute demonstration with a decommissioned 4 tesla MRI magnet showing how magnetic objects are pulled in and oscillate along the bore.
COVID-19: A Second Opinion
A 38-minute highlights video from a January 2022 Senate roundtable hosted by Ron Johnson, where doctors and experts offered dissenting views on pandemic response, early treatment and vaccine safety.
The IGF-1 Trade-Off: Performance vs. Longevity
A short FoundMyFitness explainer on the trade-off between growth hormone/IGF-1 and longevity.