SciFri Radio: General Health and Medicine
SciFri Radio: Overtreated
Are Americans getting too much unneccessary health care?
SciFri Videos: General Health and Medicine
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Video: Laser Eye Surgery in Six Minutes
Each year, millions of Americans pay to have their eyeballs poked, prodded, suctioned, sliced and zapped with a laser. In exchange, their vision is...
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Video: Improbable Research: Collection #102
Improbable Research, the maker of Annals of Improbable Research Magazine and the annual Ig Nobel Awards, brings you video! Each episode is composed...
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Video: Life On Our Skin
What lives on our skin? Dr. Martin Blaser, the chairman of the department of medicine at NYU School of Medicine, is trying to find out. After...
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Video: Living Band-Aid Beats Like A Heart
Jordan Lancaster and Steven Goldman, researchers from the Southern Arizona Veterans Administration and the University of Arizona, put rat heart...
SciFri Newsbriefs: General Health and Medicine
Newsbrief: Follow Your Nose
A man's sweat can change a woman's body chemistry.
Newsbrief: Feeling Feverish? Sit Still
Viruses evolve differently depending on how free their hosts are to move and mingle.
Newsbrief: Killing Disease with Bugs
One proposed method to fight malaria is to modify the genes of the mosquitoes that carry the disease.
Newsbrief: SciFri File: Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
A company is mass-marketing a genetic test for breast and ovarian cancer. Would you get tested?
Newsbrief: Better Medicine Through Cell Phones
Answer that call—your ultrasound results are on the line.
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