SciShow
Understanding COVID-19
This video was recorded on 12/8/2020. Hank and our content manager, Alexis, interviewed Dr. Howard Bauchner, the Editor in Chief of the JAMA network of medical journals. They discussed some of the surprising things that we've learned...
TED Talks
TED: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malawi, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new...
SciShow
Understanding COVID-19
Hank and our content manager, Alexis, interviewed Dr. Howard Bauchner, the Editor in Chief of the JAMA network of medical journals. They discussed some of the surprising things that we've learned since the beginning of the pandemic and...
TED Talks
Laurie Garrett: Lessons from the 1918 flu
In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant...
TED Talks
Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. And when the Ebola epidemic exploded in 2014, it caused a worldwide panic. But humanity can beat Ebola -- and Aylward shows four...
TED Talks
TED: How we'll fight the next deadly virus | Pardis Sabeti
When ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around...
SciShow
What Social Distancing Actually Is & What it Means for Mental Health
Social distancing is a time-honored, low-tech tool for slowing the spread of contagious pathogens. But it can also take a toll psychologically. Luckily, there are ways to mitigate these harms, so you can protect yourself and your...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The Ebola Virus Epidemic - where to from here
Greg Martin takes a look at the factors that could lead to the Ebola Virus Epidemic spreading out of Africa and into other parts of the world like the USA and Europe. Dr Martin highlights the fact that front line medical workers might be...
Curated Video
I Spent A Month as a Medical Student. Here's What I Learned. | Clinical Immersion
I Spent A Month as a Medical Student. Here's What I Learned. | Clinical Immersion
Global Health with Greg Martin
Global Health news - Ebola, Malaria, Dengue and more
In this episode, we take a look at front line workers in the fight against Ebola, a Dengue virus epidemic in China and safe medicines for diarrhea and malaria.
IDG TECHtalk
How AI helps scientists fight COVID-19
Artificial intelligence is useful for sorting through massive amounts of data and identifying anomalies within that data. Given the swaths of data healthcare workers and scientists are sorting through due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
The MERS Outbreak
This Week in Global Health covers everything you wanted to know about MERS-CoV and the MERS outbreak. We do the digging and answer your questions; What is MERS? Where is the MERS outbreak happening? How is the MERS-CoV transmitted and...
IDG TECHtalk
How tech companies are helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic
More and more tech companies are stepping up to the plate to assist frontline workers and healthcare organizations as the coronavirus continues to take its toll around the world. Computerworld’s Ken Mingis joins Juliet to discuss how...
Press Association
Chancellor and PM tell nurses the NHS workload will ‘go up, not down’
The NHS’s workload is “likely to go up, not down”, Sir Keir Starmer warned, as he hinted at reforms the Government might make to assist healthcare staff. Health service workers pressed the Prime Minister about his plans to help them deal...
Press Association
NHS workload will ‘go up, not down’, Starmer warns after new health funding
The NHS’s workload is “likely to go up, not down”, Sir Keir Starmer warned, as he hinted at reforms the Government might make to assist healthcare staff. Health service workers pressed the Prime Minister about his plans to help them deal...
Press Association
Politics daily briefing: August 19
All the latest political news in the UK, as almost half the pupils taking newly forged technical qualifications in health and science dropped out, according to analysis by the Labour Party.
Press Association
Dublin artist Emma Blake’s Covid-19 themed murals hit right note with singers
Dublin artist Emma Blake has created a series of murals using pop culture to highlight social distancing measures and to thank frontline healthcare workers. The Tallaght native has won acclaim for her murals, with chart stars such as...
Bloomberg
Singapore to Ease Covid Restrictions, Prime Minister Lee Says
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the country is moving ahead with a plan to significantly ease longstanding Covid-19 curbs, lifting most restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors and a requirement to wear masks outdoors. He...
Press Association
NHS suicides ‘have been a huge taboo in medicine’, BBC show creator Adam Kay says
Suicides among NHS staff are not being addressed properly, the creator of BBC series This Is Going To Hurt has warned as he unveiled the first national memorial to health workers. Adam Kay, a former junior doctor who based the hit show...
Bloomberg
Mazzucato's Mission-Orientated Approach
Jan.29 -- Mariana Mazzucato, UCL Professor in the Economics of Innovation & Public Value talks about her new book "Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism." She speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
Press Association
Leo Varadkar visits Civil Defence Dublin branch
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Defence Minister Paul Kehoe visit the Civil Defence Dublin branch on Wolfe Tone Quay to receive a briefing on the contribution by Volunteers to the coronavirus reponse. Speaking in Dublin on Monday, he said:...
Sky News
Vaccine Update Press Briefing
CLEAN: Interior shots of Head of Immunisation, Dr Mary Ramsay speaking at a government briefing on COVID-19, about the impact of the vaccine on reducing transmission on 17th March 2021 in Downing Street, London, United Kingdom.
Press Association
Daily politics briefing: August 4
All the latest updates on the UK's political stage, as the UK’s leading health organisations are demanding an end to the abuse endured by healthcare workers during the pandemic.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: Patient Centered Care (Clip 5)
Gain insights into patient-centered care as Matt Probst talks with an elderly patient, Ignacio, about his life, work, and medical treatment. [1:31]