Catalyst University
More Pressure-Volume (PV) Curves
In this video, we discuss another type of pressure-volume loop in detail that you may encounter in your anatomy and physiology class.
Healthcare Triage
The Stuff We Worry About, and the Stuff That Actually Kills Us
What are we worried about in terms of health? What's really gonna kill us? How different is that from the past? All this and more on this week's Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
The Harms of Marijuana
We've talked in the past about the positives of Marijuana use. What are the harms? From pregnancy effects to impaired driving to memory and concentration, Aaron will tell you how pot might hurt you.
Catalyst University
What is the Frank-Starling Mechanism in Cardiophysiology?
What is the Frank-Starling Mechanism? We will discuss this by talking about the effects of preload, left ventricular stretch and elastic recoil, and changes in stroke volume.
Healthcare Triage
What Kills Us? How We Understand Risk.
One of the things that baffles me about people is how they completely misunderstand risk. Lots of my friends panic about things that have no real chance of killing them, but ignore the things that will. This can lead us to make...
Curated Video
Introduction to Hiking
This video promotes the benefits of hiking as a great way to get in shape while enjoying the outdoors. It highlights the numerous health benefits, including cardiovascular exercise, muscle strength, weight loss, and improved mental...
The Viral Fever
The Food Files, Series 2
Hot on the heels of the popular first series, The Food Files returns to investigate the real health benefits and risks of the foods we eat. Foodie and health guru Nikki Muller travels back to the source of the food’s origins, and breaks...
Healthcare Triage
More Than Just a Haircut: The Role of Barbershops in Healthcare
Barbershops have long played a significant social, economic, and cultural role in African-American life. Barbershops foster both confidentiality and camaraderie, which seems like a good environment to talk to men about hypertension.
The Wall Street Journal
How AI is Advancing Precision Health
What role can AI-powered algorithms play in detecting diseases? HeartFlow, a billion-dollar startup, shows us how AI is pushing the envelope in medical diagnoses.
The Wall Street Journal
Verily and Moderna on Intercepting the Next Pandemic
How can technology help detect and eradicate the next virus? Executives from Verily and Moderna discuss software, AI tools and novel vaccine technologies to fight off infectious diseases.
Healthcare Triage
That Booze News? Look Past the Headlines and Don't Panic
The recent alcohol study made a lot of breathless headlines along the lines of "no amount of alcohol is safe!" Well, it turns out, there's some value to looking at the nuances of the study. Aaron Carroll takes a look at the details. Soak...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Bittersweet
The world is facing a diabetes epidemic – with the disease linked to both genetic and lifestyle causes. India is set to become the diabetes capital of the world – with numbers set to double in a generation – while in Africa, efforts are...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - From the Heart
Strokes are a major public health issue in Europe and are among the leading causes of death and long-term disability in all developed countries. Urgent action is needed to address the dramatically increasing clinical, economic and social...
Let's Tute
IELTS Reading: How to Answer Matching Features Questions
This video is a tutorial for IELTS students on how to answer matching feature questions in the reading section. The teacher explains the importance of scanning skills and recognizing synonyms and paraphrases. The tutorial includes a...
Healthcare Triage
Sleep Apnea, CPAP, and Barriers to Care in the US
Sleep apnea is a condition that can cause a lot of problems. It is also easily treatable. But there can be barriers to care for a number of reasons. This week, Aaron tells the story of his own diagnosis with sleep apnea, and the hurdles...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding Heart Attacks: Anatomy, Physiology, and Mechanics
This video explains the basic anatomy, physiology, and mechanics behind a heart attack, also known as a myocardial infarction. It discusses how the heart works, the role of the coronary arteries, and the symptoms and treatment of a heart...
Healthcare Triage
How New Drugs Are Developed
Dan Skovronsky, President of Lilly Research Laboratories and Chief Scientific Officer for Eli Lilly and Company gives us a peek into the drug discovery and development process specifically focused on Alzheimer's detection and research.
Curated Video
Methods of Displaying Data for Identifying Patterns in Diseases and their Effects on Society
This video discusses three ways in which scientists can display and analyze data to identify patterns and relationships within the data. The first method is using bar charts to quantify and compare different categories of data, which can...
The Viral Fever
The Food Files: Is Oil Good for You?
Oil has a lot of star power. We use it in pretty much everything that we cook, from fresh salads to fried foods. But is oil the hero or the villain in our diets?
Healthcare Triage
The Bad Food Bible
Some of our most popular HCT episodes have been about food. Or, rather, they've been about the science and research behind food, and the recommendations groups make about what you should, or shouldn't eat.
Professor Dave Explains
Diabetes and Insulin: A Triumph for Recombinant DNA Technology
Having talked a lot about diseases caused by pathogens, and the breakthroughs with antibiotics and vaccines to address them, it's time to check out some other maladies that are more directly related to human physiology. Let's start with...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - The Silent Killer
It’s known as The Silent Killer – blood pressure is one of the world’s growing killers – especially in countries like China where Western diets and a growing lack of exercise are beginning to take their toll. We travel to Beijing to join...
Healthcare Triage
Cholesterol Isn't Quite as Bad as You've Been Told
Cholesterol! For decades it's been demonized as the reason so many people have heart disease. We 've been watching it, and avoiding it like the plague.