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SURVIVAL: A Healthy Start
Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. Bangladesh has one of the highest child mortality figures in the world. Fifty children a day die drowning. Fifty thousand a year are killed by diarrhoea. Yet a range of cheap...
TLDR News
Coronavirus Vaccine: How Long Do We Have to Wait - TLDR News.
With the Coronavirus spreading around the world, people are increasingly keen to see a vaccine developed to kill the virus. The problem is that researching and producing vaccines isn't an easy process. In this video, we explain how this...
Weird History
What People Ate During The Plague
When the Black Plague struck Europe in the 14th century, people didn't have much time to worry about their diets. Still, doctors warned that the most popular food and drinks in medieval England, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, could...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
DAY 07 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Seventh Day DAY 07 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen When we hear how Till Owlyglass cured all the patients in Luneburg Hospital in one day, and how he rode into Luneburg on a...
HealthSketch
What is Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)?
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is a progressive scarring lung condition. This simple animation explains how it occurs, the key symptoms, and how best to manage the condition.This video will be helpful to students of all ages, health...
Barcroft Media
Cow Urine Heralded As Miracle Cure
VRINDAVAN, INDIA: The ISKCON Goshala in Vrindavan has recently figured in the news for it's production of Aurvedic drinks made of distilled cow urine, yes, COW URINE!!!! The drink is thought of as a miracle cure for several diseases,...
Weird History
What People Ate During The Black Plague
When the Black Plague struck Europe in the 14th century, people didn't have much time to worry about their diets. Still, doctors warned that the most popular food and drinks in medieval England, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, could...
Curated Video
The History and Making of Sausage
Sausage is believed to be the first truly processed meat. It's made by mixing ground meat with spices and salt, then stuffing it into a casing of animal intestine or a synthetic casing. Learn how the sausage is made!
Weird History
The Plague That Made People Dance Themselves to Death
Medieval Europe had no shortages of super deadly disease outbreaks that could wipe out a chunk of the population without much effort. But none of them were quite as fun as the bizarre case of Frau Troffea and the dancing plague that had...
Barcroft Media
My Dwarfism Is One In A Million
WILMINGTON - NOVEMBER 15: AN 11-year-old boy with a rare form of dwarfism is one-in-a-million. Levi Krystosek, 11, has a rare form of dwarfism called Jansen's Metaphysical Chondrodysplasia, which affects the growth of bones and causes...
Barcroft Media
Neurofibromatosis Leaves Mum's Body Covered In Lumps: BORN DIFFERENT
MUM-OF-FOUR Rachael Reynolds spends each morning getting her children ready for the day ahead, but her severe skin condition leaves her brimming with anxiety each time she leaves the house to do the school run. Rachael, 41, from...
The Wall Street Journal
Finding a Cure for HIV
Dr. Sharon Lewin, president of the International AIDS Society and director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, discusses how the successful development of antiviral strategies and gene therapies could be given to...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - New Weapon Against Malaria
A chemical developed by China for use by the Vietcong in the Vietnam War to fight malaria is providing new hope for million of malaria sufferers. The chemical called artemisinin, which is extracted from the ginghao plant, is providing...
Weird History
Bizarre Practices of Medieval Barbers
Barbers in the Middle Ages were excellent multi-taskers. It’s true: a lot of surgery in the Middle Ages was done by so-called barber-surgeons, a medieval precursor to the old dude with the combs in the blue water down the street. But...
Curated Video
Harriet Tubman: the "Moses" of Her Time
Aside from helping her family (and thousands more) escape slavery, she led troops in combat, cured a disease, and was generally way more of a rebel than history generally portrays her as. She lived a remarkably full life, especially for...
Jabzy
The Royal Touch - Stuff That I Find Interesting
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about The Royal Touch
Barcroft Media
I'm A Beauty Queen Despite My Scaly Skin
DESPITE being born with an incredibly rare condition that makes her skin crack and shed, Bailey Pretak is redefining beauty standards - by becoming a beauty queen. Bailey, 31, has battled lamellar ichthyosis all her life, a genetic...
TLDR News
Johnson's Coronavirus Plans Explained - TLDR News
Earlier this week Johnson and the government announced their official plan to tackle the Coronavirus. In this video, we dissect the government's report and explain what the UK's doing to handle the virus.
A Capella Science
Banting's Imparted Years (Stan Rogers Parody)
The discovery of insulin by Canadian researchers Banting and Best, set to Canadian balladeer Stan Rogers' classic sea shanty "Barrett's Privateers"
Financial Times
Coronavirus how Boris Johnson has performed so far
The FT's Whitehall correspondent Sebastian Payne looks at how the prime minister is responding to the outbreak - likely to be the biggest test he will face as prime minister.
Weird History
What It Was Like To Go To Doctor In the Wild West
The Old West wasn't all cowboys, saloons, and shootouts. Pioneers living on the American frontier also relied on doctors for all kinds of medical treatments. Epidemics, accidents, and STDs kept doctors busy. But unfortunately for...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists unlock the secret to scratching: What makes you itch?
Scientists believe they are closer to unlocking the secret of the itch. Long a medical mystery, a recent experiment involving mutant mice has pushed researchers closer to learning the truth about what causes the annoying need to scratch.
Barcroft Media
The Girl Who Doesn't Sleep: BORN DIFFERENT
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl has a rare condition which means she can survive on an hour of sleep a night. Exhausted parents Robin Audette and Kirk Hisko are lucky to get between four to six hours sleep a night, but their energetic daughter...