Healthcare Triage
Soccer Concussions, HPV Vaccines, and Pregnant Drinking: Healthcare Triage News
How dangerous is heading a soccer ball? Who's mandating the HPV vaccine in the US? And how many women are drinking while pregnant in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK? This is Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
Can You Get Reinfected with Covid?
Reports have surfaced of individuals being re-infected with Covid-19, raising questions about immunity via natural infection as well as questions about the utility of vaccines. Here we take a look at the data to see how common...
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Outbreak - Curbing the Tide of Meningitis
In March 2007, as a meningitis epidemic was raging in Burkina Faso, we filmed a poignant and revealing account of the devastating impact meningitis epidemics have on individuals, families, and communities. Meningitis is a deadly...
Mediacorp
The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, host Joshua investigates the timeline for vaccine development and whether there is any hope of eradicating the virus. Pandemic part 1/7
The Wall Street Journal
J&J CEO on Single-dose Vaccine Development
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.
Healthcare Triage
More People Should Get the HPV Vaccine
The CDC recommendations for the HPV vaccine have just changed. If you’re 45 years of age or younger, then you might want to talk to your doctor about getting vaccinated yourself.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST on a CHIP: Impacts to Industry
Could you benefit from a device that is small, portable, precise to NIST standards, and that never has to be recalibrated? Here are a few examples of how NIST’s new devices could revolutionize your field.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Vaccines - This Week in Global Health
This episode 2 focuses on vaccines and immunisation.
The Wall Street Journal
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Covid-19 and the Economy
New Zealand's Prime Minister discusses the country's "zero Covid-19" strategy, vaccine mandates and other lessons from fighting the pandemic.
SWPictures
KILL OR CURE - Saving Lives
The developing world is soon set to get affordable vaccines. A new international agreement is planning to fix the price of a drug or vaccine to make them affordable for some of the world’s poorest people. The agreement is between donors,...
Healthcare Triage
Sleepless Surgeons & Pertussis - HCT News Sept. 12, 2015
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.
Healthcare Triage
Get Your Flu Shot! It's Not About You, OK?
It's not too late to get a flu shot! You may have heard that the flu shot this year is "less effective" than in earlier years. That may not mean what you think it means. Less effective is a relative relationship, and in absolute terms,...
TLDR News
COVID: What Happens If We Never Discover a Vaccine? - TLDR News.
We're all locked inside at the moment because we're concerned about the spread of the Coronavirus, and it looks like we're going to have to stay where we are until the situation changes. One way this could happen is through the...
Learning Mole
The Amazing Immune System
This human body video lesson is all about our immune system and how it keeps us healthy. Students will love this engaging and interactive video.This video serves as a great introduction or review video for your learners.
Healthcare Triage
Samoa's Devastating Measles Outbreak: An Antivax Story
Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases but is preventable with high vaccination rates. Unfortunately, this isn't happening everywhere, including in Samoa.
Curated Video
Vaccines: How They Work and Protect Us
Vaccines contain weakened or inactive copies of diseases. When injected, they stimulate the immune system to develop immunity against those diseases, protecting individuals from future infections. Vaccines have greatly reduced the...
Healthcare Triage
The History of Vaccine Backlash Part 1
Part four of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. It turns out, people have been resistant to the idea of vaccines pretty much since vaccines were invented. This...
Financial Times
Crunched: why are we still not vaccinating our children?
The FT's John Burn-Murdoch and Federica Cocco examine the data behind vaccination and why measles is back in the news. Cases have hit a 25-year high in America, with dozens of more serious outbreaks across the globe
Encyclopaedia Britannica
This Month in History. August: National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM)
This Month in History. August: National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM). Bacterial contamination is discovered in batch of flu vaccines; 5 yr old boy in Peru believed to be last case of indigenous polio in Western Hemisphere; NIAM...
The Wall Street Journal
Anthony Fauci's Advice for the Biden Team
Anthony Fauci talks to the WSJ about the future timetable for vaccines and other treatments that business can plan for.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Global Health: Immunization - 10 facts
This is a global health video blog giving you 10 facts about immunisation and the importance of vaccination. Global health (and public health) is truly multidisciplinary and leans on epidemiology, health economics, health policy,...
Healthcare Triage
A Vaccine for Malaria!
Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...
Professor Dave Explains
Immunomodulators Part 2: Immunostimulants
We just learned about immunosuppressants, so now it's time to learn about immunostimulants. As one would expect, rather than dampening immune activity, these enhance immune activity. There are instances in which immune stimulation has...
Financial Times
Melinda Gates: vaccines, inequality and caregiving
The co-founder of the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation tells FT editor Roula Khalaf, in an interview recorded on April 29, that women have lost $800bn of income in the pandemic and on average have contributed 30 hours a week to unpaid...