SciFri Radio: General Health and Medicine

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Are Americans getting too much unneccessary health care?

SciFri Videos: General Health and Medicine

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...

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...

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...

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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Music from Preliner Archives. Audio engineering by Christopher Intagliata. Filmed and produced by Flora Lichtman. Additional imagery courtesy of American Institute of Stress.

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