China wants to lead in critical areas of medical research. Where is this effort already bearing fruit, and how can major drug companies best navigate a big market that has a different approach to regulation and privacy?

There's a study coming out of the UK about using a steroid called Dexamethasone to treat COVID19 symptoms. The initial reports look good, but we'll hold judgement until we see the full study. Toilet plumes are also in the news....

Johnson & Johnson CEO, Alex Gorsky offers a look inside the consumer giant's mobilization to develop its single dose vaccine, its effectiveness against new emerging variants and its partnership with Merck to boost production.

In this week's episode, we examine electric eels, test out a new at-home screening test for people on blood thinners, learn about a new app for reporting floods and, finally, examine how RoboBee uses static electricity to stick to surfaces.

Treating Neurological Diseases with Brain Interfaces

In this video, we explore the theory, use, and specific details regarding cryotherapy techniques.

Explore the cultural significance, historical origins, and various application methods of tattoos. Dive into the symbolism and meaning of tattoos across different cultures, and understand the medical purposes they can serve. From rites...

Japanese Encephalitis kills thousands of children across Asia and leaves thousands more disabled. A new vaccine, developed and manufactured in China, is being rolled out across Southern Asia for the first time. The new manufacturing...

Common Migraine Triggers, including environmental, biological and psychological triggers



Migraines are often pulsatile and unilateral headaches that are very debilitating and have associated symptoms. Migraines have a wide...

Prescription drugs are pretty awesome. They improve lives all the time. But it is possible to take too many. Over time, as patients are prescribed more an more ongoing medications, it's a good idea to sometimes step back, evaluate, and...

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Case studies of companies saving money through reducing employee commuting and incentivizing other modes of transportation

Lesson on Psychoneuroimmunology: The Inter-relationship of Mental Health and the Immune System. Psychoneuroimmunology is a new area of research looking into how mental health (stress, depression, etc.) impacts the immune system and how...

It's a chilling thought - losing the sense of sight because of severe injury or damage to the brain's visual cortex. But, is it possible to train a damaged or injured brain to ""see"" again after such a catastrophic injury? Yes,...

There is an alternative to patients with appendicitis who don't want to get surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

According to a report from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, anosmia, the loss of smell; hyposmia, a reduced sense of smell; and dysgeusia, the distortion of the sense of taste, should be added to the list of...

William Martin at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has drawn on mathematical systems once thought to have no practical use to help make public key cryptography run effectively on sensors with tiny processors and meager power supplies.

Muesli is a mix of grains, fruit, and other nutritional foods. It was invented by a doctor in the early 1900s and became popular in the western world in the 1960s. Follow along with the video to make muesli or improvise your own version!

Drug companies love the Orphan Drug Act. They say it encourages research into breakthrough therapies for people with rare disease. And sometimes that's true. Lots of the time, though, the companies would've pursued the research anyhow....

Surgeons evidently don't need sleep as much as I do, and when it comes to pertussis, the real danger is inside the house. This is Healthcare Triage News.

What happens in your brain when you get lost or forget something? Johns Hopkins University Neuroscientist Amy Shelton believes she can find the answer. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she's testing human spatial...

Scientists have identified a new virus as a possible cause for the mysterious pneumonia outbreak in China’s Wuhan.<br/>

Science can do some pretty amazing things. But it can also do some pretty creepy, disturbing , and downright odd things. Here are 10 Weird Body Transplants that you can't look away from'

3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of...