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30 Jan 2013

Need a Doctor? Go Abroad

The Obama Administration got nowhere creating jobs with its green energy initiatives. But thanks to Obamacare, one industry might yet experience a boom — medical tourism. If the double whammy of Obamacare, which will be fully up and running in 2014, and a rapidly aging population creates pronounced health-care shortages, more and more Americans may soon start looking abroad for fast, affordable and effective treatments for all sorts of medical problems. H/T Reason

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28 Jan 2013

Robo-Doctors to the Rescue

Even if Obamacare diminishes the quality of health care in America — and that appears likely — there might be one silver lining to reverse the degradation. The FDA has approved RP-VITA, the first robotic doctors, for deployment to hospitals beginning this spring. The RP-VITA can navigate the hospital on its own, and provide doctors with vital signs and other information from a distance in real time.

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24 Jan 2013

Dentistry — Russian-Style

Got a cavity that’s nagging you? A wisdom tooth that needs removing? Coffee stains on your molars?

Relax. Your Russian dentist has all the tools to fix what ails you. The French deliver a report on the latest Russian dentistry techniques, a report that might or might not be just a tad fanciful.

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14 Jan 2013

Influenza Hits Epidemic Stage

Influenza has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3% of US deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, just above the epidemic threshold of 7.2%. Flu activity was widespread in 47 states, up from 41 the previous week. Influenza kills about 24,000 Americans each year.

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The increase in flu cases raises the question: Will we ever see another outbreak like the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed between 20 and 50 million people, representing 1-3 percent of the global population. This short documentary — Hospitals Full-Up — compares health care from 1918 with what’s available today.

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07 Dec 2012

How Do Cancer Cells Behave?

How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan, host of Pocket Science, explains how rapid cell division is cancer’s “strength” — and also its weakness. H/T TEDed

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05 Dec 2012

Chocolate: The Best Medicine

Innovative research conducted in Lausanne, Switzerland has shown that a combination of neurotransmitters and electrical stimulation can restore movement to the lower limbs of previously paralyzed rats. But in order for this motion to be made voluntarily the rats must be motivated to walk. This motivation comes in the form of cheering, visual cues, and of course, chocolate. H/T Veritasium

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18 Nov 2012

Putting Men on a Leash

German scientists believe the hormone oxytocin can hold men’s libidos in check, keeping them faithful and disinclined to stray from their mates. No word yet on whether this drug will be covered under Obamacare or subjected to CIA PSYOPs testing. Hank Green discusses the hormone in this week’s SciShow News. He also touches on new insights into what makes some behavior contagious, and the truth about a disease that makes people allergic to meat.

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16 Nov 2012

Obamacare’s Runaway Costs

By reducing or eliminating competition, Obamacare threatens to cause explosive increases in US health care costs. The reason: Patients don’t have the incentive to seek out value when third-parties such as private insurance companies or the government pick up the tab for medical services. Reason.TV examines the Surgery Center of Oklahoma as a case study in this principle and as a possible alternative model for Obamacare.

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10 Nov 2012

HIV Vaccine in the Works

After success in preliminary testing, an HIV vaccine trial takes the next step towards becoming a viable treatment. Whether it actually represents a cure awaits results from a few more rounds of wider testing. H/T SourceFed

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02 Oct 2012

Carry On, Doctor Blackburn

In this edition of the SciShow, Hank Green profiles Elizabeth Blackburn, the Australian Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is one of only 16 women to receive the coveted award over the last century. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Blackburn has specialized in studying the process of aging at the genetic level, most recently at the University of California at San Francisco. Along with two other colleagues, she discovered an enzyme called telomerase that helps to protect our chromosomes from damage. For her efforts, she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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