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Baby With Swollen Head Hopes For Life-Saving Surgery: BORN DIFFERENT
A MOTHER hopes for surgery for her baby boy whose head has swollen to TWICE its natural size. Born a healthy baby boy, Mohammad Hasan's head started to dramatically swell when he was just 16 days old. Now 18-months-old Hasan's head...
Mediacorp
Honor Killings: The Battle for Tradition and Justice
This video discusses the issue of honor killings in India and the power of the cup and child, a caste-based community, in protecting their traditions. It follows the story of Mahvish and Abdulhakim, a couple from different castes who...
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Whooping cough cases worst in half century
Nearly 18,000 cases of whooping cough have been reported so far this year in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control. If the trend continues this would be the worst outbreak since 1959, when 40,000 cases were reported. The...
Debunked
What Happens When Something Goes Down The Wrong Hole?
What Happens When Something Goes Down The Wrong Hole? DEBUNKED
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Powerful new COVID vaccine undergoing final trials
Novavax used a different approach to create a vaccine that works well in more than 90 percent of tested individuals.
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Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos: Wikipedia's potential
What aspects contribute to Wikipedia being considered a large scale online conversation? Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos, Part 2
Curated Video
The Art and History of Body Piercing
Piercings are one of the most common forms of body modification. The process involves puncturing or cutting body tissue to insert ornamental pieces. This art and cultural practice dates back at least 5000 years. Discover different...
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Developing more effective migraine treatments
For a century, scientists thought migraines were a vascular disease. But now it is thought that migraines are related to a wave of overactive neurons that spreads across the brain, which in turn affects blood vessels. Researchers hope to...
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Microneedle patch a painless way to deliver vaccines
Researchers at MIT are developing a method of delivering vaccines with patches of tiny needles that would embed a substance containing the vaccine onto the skin, much like a tattoo. The technique would eliminate the need of a syringe.
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Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos: Maximizing user engagement
Where is Andreas Vlachos work at the moment? What future direction would he like to go in and why does he want to stay in academia? Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos, Part 5
All In One Social Media
Separating vs Retiring from the Military
Separating vs Retiring from the Military // There is a range of benefits and differences when retiring from the military or separating from the military. In the U.S. armed forces, separation means that a person is leaving active duty,...
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Paralyzed rats able to walk again
Paralyzed rats are able to walk again after being treated with a combination of stimulation from drugs and electrical impulses with rehabilitation therapy. For the experiment, researchers at the University of Zurich and the Ecole...
Healthcare Triage
Rural Hospital Closures Impact the Health of a Lot of People
Rural hospitals in the United States are having an increasingly hard time staying in business. Which is not great for the health of people who live in areas that no longer have a hospital.
Healthcare Triage
Is the Apple Watch a USEFUL Medical Device?
Apple is pushing the medical benefits of the Apple Watch pretty hard, but we have questions about just how useful the watch's electrocardiogram feature really is. Aaron digs into the research on just how much the device is doing.
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The path of the rabies virus during transmission
Rabies is on the rise in the US, with several states reporting higher-than-average numbers of cases in wild animals this summer. States in the Great Plains, as well as Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas and Maine, have all seen a rise...
Healthcare Triage
The Health System of Taiwan: HCT Healthcare of Many Nations
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.
Mediacorp
The Dark Reality of Sex-Selective Abortions
This video explores the issue of sex-selective abortions in India, where more than one in 10 girls are aborted. A local journalist and his friend go undercover to expose clinics offering these services, highlighting the black market...
Curated Video
Rubber Gloves: The Simple Invention That Revolutionised Medicine
This is a love story behind one of the most important medical inventions ever made - the rubber gloves.
Mediacorp
Bachelor Life and the Changing Dynamics of Marriage in Bulandshahr
This video explores the challenges faced by bachelors in Bulandshahr, India, where the shortage of women has led to changing gender roles within families. It also discusses the prevalence of arranged marriages in India and the...
Australian Children's Television Foundation
Bushwhacked! - Series 2 - Episode 7 (Dugong)
Doctor Kayne, medical check the endangered Dugong!
IDG TECHtalk
Why is the state of medical IoT so scary?
Security is the Achilles’ heel of all modern IoT technology, but the consequences of medical IoT hacking, in particular, can be disturbingly serious. A look at the state of the connected devices commonly found in hospitals, and why you...
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Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos: Fact checking chatbots
How should automated fact checking be integrated in social media platforms? How can a fact check have an impact? Towards automated fact checking with Andreas Vlachos, Part 3
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Briton can move his fingers after UK's first successful hand transplant
A 51-year-old Briton is able to move the fingers on his right hand for the first time in five years after receiving the first successful hand transplant in the UK. Mark Cahill's right hand was paralyzed after an infection caused by gout....
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Human blood vessels grown in lab
US scientists have grown human blood vessels in a lab, a development that could revolutionize bypass surgery and help babies with congenital heart defects and patients on dialysis. The blood vessels are grown in a process that takes just...