This video explores five fun facts about Florence Nightingale.

This week on the Healthcare Triage Podcast, we're sitting down with Dr. Jonathan Fridell, organ transplant surgeon. He and Aaron talk all about how exactly organs get moved from one person to another, and I can tell you, it is FASCINATING.

The video discusses the challenges of providing healthcare to a community of fishermen living in stilted homes in Lagos, Nigeria. Doctors Without Borders established a clinic in the heart of the community, providing medical care and...

To celebrate International Women's Day, I decided to find out more about the UK's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Despite being a woman and facing a medical profession who believed she didn't belong there, Elizabeth...

MOT 1948: DRAMATIZATION HOSPITAL ROOM: Semi Private 416 room sign. Nurse in semi-private room, doctor & surgeon come into room, talk w/ 'Mrs. Conrad', she will do fine. 'Mrs. Conrad' resting.

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...

Learn how an ex-diamond trader created a state-of-the-art cow shed. His radical plans and dedication to the well-being of the cows are inspiring and highlight the importance of sustainable farming practices.

Deciphering India, The...

The wife of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise has given her account of last month’s attack, saying she believes presidential guards vacated their posts under orders from an unknown source.

June Gibbons and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins" since they only communicated with each other.



They wrote works of fiction. Both women were admitted to...

The major challenge facing the modern world of vaccines is to get them to people right at the end of the line – those people who still don’t have access to effective treatment. It’s not always remote villages way out in the country, it...

Medicine and medical care during the Middle Ages was predictably sparse. Herbs were usually used as a form of medication and medical services were often provided by other peasants. Due to a lack of access to medical services, many...

Princess (Shahdokht) Ashraf Pahlavi (twin sister Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) getting out of car / Princess Ashraf walking into hospital / Nurse taking chest X-rays of man / Princess Ashraf talking to people around her (no SOT)

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The Taliban have taken over Kabul airport following the departure of the final U.S. flight on Tuesday morning, according to the BBC, but only after a rocket attack on the airport on Monday.

Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we're looking at Taiwan, which made the transition to a single payer system kind of suddenly, and pretty recently.

A new virus from the Chinese city of Wuhan has made 440 people sick, at least nine of whom have died, as of Wednesday.

The video explores the growing problem of kidney disease in Africa, particularly in Nigeria. The lack of resources and facilities to treat the disease, coupled with a shortage of medical experts, means that many people are left untreated...

Actually, don't panic. Or maybe do panic. I don't know. The American Heart Association released new blood pressure guidelines late last in 2017. New coverage was breathless, and claimed millions of Americans suddenly had high blood...

Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing

Stephen Krashen completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at UCLA (1972), and is currently an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California.



Krashen is the author of more than 525 articles and books in...

As work in the UK gets more precarious and the gig economy booms, trade unionism is being reimagined and people from a wide range of backgrounds are joining new kinds of unions, often for the first time. Before coronavirus hit the UK and...

Healthcare organizations are one of the most targeted verticals when it comes to cyberattacks. While those organizations must work to secure patients' sensitive data, it can also be helpful to analyze that data to improve patient...

Over five million people in India have the HIV virus. The spread is diverse, with little over a quarter of the states accounting for more than 90% of cases. The epidemic is cloaked in secrecy and shame. This has forced 11-year-old...

Dengue fever affects up to 100 million people every year, mainly children. It kills about 20,000 – and they die from what is known as dengue shock syndrome. The hunt is now on for a vaccine. Sanofi pasteur and GSK, two of the biggest...