You may have heard that redheads need less pain medicine, or that they need more anesthesia in surgeries. And both of those things are true! Which is weird. Let's talk about some of the stuff we know about what the heck hair color has...

Joel Bervell was one of the only Black students in his medical school program. After noticing how misconceptions about race were embedded in health care, he turned to social media to raise awareness about the harmful impact of biases in...

Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.

Today, the organ transplantation is one of the well-known medical treatment, but the road to the first successful organ transplant was full of challenges, discoveries, and a whole lot of work.

The quest for anesthetics that could induce unconsciousness and enable more meticulous surgeries began around the early 3rd century CE. Before anesthesia was widely used, patients had to consciously endure every moment of surgery. So,...

Today, the organ transplantation is one of the well-known medical treatment, but the road to the first successful organ transplant was full of challenges, discoveries, and a whole lot of work.

Curare, known as "flying death," was used for centuries to make poisoned arrows. Scientists discovered how to use it to create life saving medical treatments that we still use today.

Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating --...

What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one...

When under anesthesia, you can't move, form memories, or -- hopefully -- feel pain. And while it might just seem like you are asleep for that time, you actually aren't. What's going on? Steven Zheng explains what we know about the...

Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.

Today we're going to wrap up our discussion of General Linear Models (or GLMs) by taking a closer looking at two final common models: ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) and RMA (Repeated Measures ANOVA). We'll show you how additional...

Scientists know that anesthesia drugs are really good at knocking you out. What they don't know is how.

Howcast -Find out if you can be awake during plastic surgery in this Howcast video featuring plastic surgeon Robert J. Morin, M.D..

Civil War myths both big and small persist to this day. LiveScience clears up a few.

This video provides a comprehensive overview of the history and evolution of surgery as a medical practice. The video discusses key advancements in surgical techniques and technology over the centuries, such as the use of anesthesia,...

Kemosabe the prehensile tailed porcupine, gets regular visits from his veterinarian to check on the length and health of his teeth. This time it doesn't go as planned. Also includes several other animals who needed vet attention as well.

Jessi answers more viewer questions! Follow around video? Best treats for parrots? Kids? And more!

Ketamine is a very powerful anesthetic drug that’s made it’s way into psychiatry. In this video I talk in detail about how Ketamine is used to treat depression.
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Learn why I don't agree with the "first line tips" provided by WebMD and other online guides. If you have a bug in the ear, and if it has crawled deep, it's always best to see a doctor to get it removed safely. 1) Why do bugs prefer ear...

Learn 5 high level vocabulary phrases for recovering from surgery so you are ready on test day!

In 1865, The Lancet, the medical journal, called upon any person, criminal or not, to prove that waving a chloroform-drenched handkerchief was enough to knock someone out. To date, nobody has stepped forward!



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