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Medical Science–Career Choice for the 21st Century
“I’m Chad Glen. We’re at Georgia Tech and I work with gap junctions so it has a relation to a lot of diseases actually. So cancer has some relation. There’s also some association with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. I’m actually from Canada. Hamilton, Ontario. So I’m far away from home. When I was younger I actually, […]
Continue Reading...NewsDepth A+ | Olivia Wenzel’s Virtual Reality Game for Dementia Therapy
Debt Angels: Ex-Bill Collectors Erase Strangers’ Medical Debts With John Oliver & Occupy Wall Street
Half of all debt is medical This is Craig Antico. In 2014, he founded RIP Medical Debt with his co-founder Jerry Ashton. We’re a charity that buys medical debt, and we abolish it. You and I are one accident or one illness away from being destroyed financially. Before Jerry and Craig were debt abolishers. They […]
Continue Reading...New frontiers of medicine – Cell and Gene Therapies
Innovation is teamwork. We are very careful and pay attention to every detail. Every step we take, we take together. We are taking care of the most precious thing on earth. A human being s life. Cell and gene therapy requires the utmost diligence. We work in pairs. Each of our moves is checked time […]
Continue Reading...150 Years of the University of Michigan’s Academic Medical Center
It’s one of the world’s largest, busiest, most highly regarded university medical centers. Millions of times a year patients come here for care. Discoveries and innovations emerge here from research on a host of diseases. Thousands of future health and science professionals launch their careers here. And it all started 150 years ago on a […]
Continue Reading...NIH Job: Medical Officer
Being a Medical Officer at NIAID in particular, but probably for NIH in general, means that as a physician what one does is oversee clinical studies and clinical trials that are going on to try and advance our understanding of different diseases and also how different interventions or diagnostics might work. The type of people […]
Continue Reading...3 Medical Cases In 90 Seconds
A boy ate only potato chips and French fries for 10 years. He was unable to tolerate the textures of other foods. Chips and fries lack vitamin B12. Your body doesn’t make B12. The vitamin is essential for the formation of myelin sheath, which covers your nerve cells and helps conduct signals from your brain. […]
Continue Reading...Becoming A Doctor Is Not For Everyone
So, my name is Anna Brown and I’m a medical student at Duke but working here at the NIH for the year and we’re in the molecular imaging clinic. Which is a clinic that focuses on different types of cancer and developing new imaging agents to look at the cancer. This year I’m focusing on […]
Continue Reading...Why Diet Might Be a Big Deal for Mental Health
[ ♪INTRO ] When it comes to physical health, mountains of evidence will tell you that a healthy diet is important. And it is. But a growing body of research is showing that diet is important for mental health, too. And before you click away, no, I’m not about to show you 10 superfoods to […]
Continue Reading...What happens when you have a disease doctors can’t diagnose | Jennifer Brea
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez Hi. Thank you. [Jennifer Brea is sound-sensitive. The live audience was asked to applaud ASL-style, in silence.] So, five years ago, this was me. I was a PhD student at Harvard, and I loved to travel. I had just gotten engaged to marry the love of my life. I […]
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