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Exercise, Fitness - cardio and VO2 max

Exercise, Fitness - cardio and VO2 max

Cancer - detection, diagnosis

Cancer - detection, diagnosis

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Lasik laser eye surgery

Lasik laser eye surgery

Balding, Hair loss - Aging, Health, Disease and Science

Balding, Hair loss - Aging, Health, Disease and Science

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

Supplements - Nutrition, food, diet and health

Supplements - Nutrition, food, diet and health

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

ADHD, attention deficit disorder - Parenting and teenagers

ADHD, attention deficit disorder - Parenting and teenagers

Alcohol and Health issues

Alcohol and Health issues

Huberman Lab Podcast - selected favorite episodes

Huberman Lab Podcast - selected favorite episodes

Dopamine

Dopamine - According to Wikipedia: "Dopamine is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several imp...

Sleep - how to stop insomnia: guides for better sleep

Sleep - how to stop insomnia: guides for better sleep

Nutrition - food, diet, supplements and health

Nutrition - food, diet, supplements and health

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

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Article

Corporate concentration. Really big health

Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma | Business (2023)


Article

To develop wearable tech, students raise $15K, including prize winnings - Refresh Miami

Student Spotlight: To develop wearable tech, FIU's Lara Garcia and FAU's Juan Fortich raise $15K, including prize winnings - Refresh Miami The p... (2023)


Article

Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry

The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)


Article

Where Will AI Have the Biggest Impact? Healthcare. | Andreessen Horowitz

We believe that any new technology has to be 10 times better to successfully displace the last one – marginal improvements aren’t worth the effort.... (2023)


Article

This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year | MIT Technology Review

eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next. The company, based in Cambridge, Massach... (2023)


Article

The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)


Article

‘It’s mind-boggling’: the hidden cost of our obsession with fish oil pills | Fish oil | The Guardian

The market in this prized commodity is worth billions – but are the supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems? Aquaculture is an expan... (2022)


Article

The patients who regret laser eye surgery: ‘My life’s stood still since then’ | US healthcare | The Guardian

Surgeons view Lasik as routine, but patient advocates and some experts say the complication rate is far higher than reported (2023)


Article

Oregon botches the decriminalisation of drugs | The Economist

It failed to prepare the ground | Leaders Decriminalizing drugs: lessons from Oregon. States contemplating drug decriminalization need to prepar... (2023)


Article

HealthTech: Selling to SMBs, a Founder's Playbook | a16z Andreessen Horowitz

How are healthtech companies creating sustainable growth paths by selling to SMBs? Can companies solely rely on SMB sales to get to scale, or do th... (2022)


Article

The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke | MIT Technology Review

A scientist went looking for genes that cause cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. But a public spat with a cannabis influencer who suffers from the d... (2022)


Article

Everything You Need To Know About Zocdoc | The Motley Fool

Helping doctors and patients find each other is an essential role in the U.S. healthcare system. (2020)


Article

12 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill > Yale Medicine

Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that can be taken soon after symptoms surface to help keep high-risk patients from getting so ... (2022)


Article

50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age

As people age, the chemical signaling pathways in muscles become less potent, and it gets harder to build muscle and maintain strength. But the hea... (2022)


Article

Why America Has So Few Doctors - The Atlantic

As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services. (2022)


Article

How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill | MIT Technology Review

A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply. (2022)


Article

On heels of $125M raise, Chilean unicorn Betterfly plans to establish an eventual global hub in Miami

Eduardo della Maggiora, the CEO of a newly minted Chilean unicorn, is moving to Miami next month and plans to open a Miami office that would likely... (2022)


Article

Covid blueprint to transform new drugs for millions

The scientist who identified the first life-saving Covid drug will launch a project tomorrow to transform treatments for heart disease, dementia an... (2022)


Article

Investing in Waymark / Medicaid | Andreessen Horowitz

“Equal means everybody gets the same. Equity means everybody gets what they need…These are issues of the 21st century that are now on our collectiv... (2022)


Article

Mortality in the past – around half died as children - Our World in Data

In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in t... (2021)


Article

Our history is a battle against the microbes. How vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves

Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves - Our Wo... (2021)


Article

Data Review: How many people die from air pollution? - Our World in Data

This Data Review present published estimates of the global death toll from air pollution and provides the context that makes them understandable. (2021)


Article

Cancer: Tumour cells steal energy-generating parts from nearby immune cells | New Scientist

Cancer cells use tiny tubes to reach out to nearby immune cells and capture their energy-generating mitochondria (2021)


Article

New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer's

A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer's disease—and also vaccinate against it—has been developed by a team of UK and German scien... (2021)


Article

Pfizer antiviral pill reduced risk of covid hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people

The protective effect was so convincing that an independent panel monitoring a trial of the drug advised it be stopped early. (2021)


Article

HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer rates by 87% in women, study finds - CNN

The first generation HPV vaccine cut cervical cancer rates among women by 87%, British researchers reported. (2021)


Article

Merck's COVID-19 antiviral pill is now approved in the U.K. : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

"The U.K. is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19," Health and Social Care Secretary S... (2021)


Article

The pandemic’s true death toll | The Economist

Our estimate of excess deaths around the world | Graphic detail (2021)


Article

Air Filtration and UV Disinfection Greatly Reduce Viruses in Hospital Wards - Marginal REVOLUTION

As I wrote earlier it’s puzzling that there isn’t more attention given to air filtration and UV light disinfection in hospitals, since these techni... (2021)


Article

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors - Alexey Guzey

See discussion of this essay on the forum, Hacker News (a), Marginal Revolution (a), Andrew Gelman’s blog 1 (a), 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (a), /r/slatestar... (2021)


Video

Protocols for Increasing VO2 Max (and why zone 2 cardio might not be enough)

Protocols for Increasing VO2 Max (and why zone 2 cardio might not be enough) | Dr. Rhonda Patrick (2024)


Video

Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED

AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)


Video

What is Biomedical Engineering & Why is it the BEST Major!! Part I

Hi everyone! Being a recent graduate from TWO Ivy League universities, Harvard & Cornell University, I thought I'd talk about the field that I've s... (2023)


Video

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)


Video

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)


Video

America’s opioid crisis - How the Mexican cartels are making profits now - The Economist

Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)


Video

What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's | Lisa Genova - TED

Alzheimer's doesn't have to be your brain's destiny, says neuroscientist and author of "Still Alice," Lisa Genova. She shares the latest science in... (2022)


Video

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed

Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)


Video

Sleep is your superpower | TED - Matt Walker

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.Sleep is your li... (2021)


Video

How aspirin was discovered - TED Ed Krishna Sudhir

4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)


Video

Long-Term Care: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver explains the industry behind nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and why long-term care needs fixing. Connect with Last Week ... (2021)


Video

An Introduction to COVID-19 Tests Types

Testing is crucial to guiding our next steps in the fight against #COVID19, but do you know the difference between all the tests available? For mor... (2020)


Video

Covid-19: why travel will never be the same | The Economist

Covid-19 has devastated global travel and—as the industry recovers from the effects of the pandemic—tourism will be increasingly localised and comp... (2020)


Video

Why lockdowns are the wrong policy - Swedish expert Prof. Johan Giesecke

That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiolog... (2020)


Video

Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)


Video

COVID-19 How to Use One Ventilator to Save Multiple Lives

Watch this short video to learn how to use one ventilator to save multiple lives. To learn more about this study visit: https://onlinelibrary.wiley... (2020)


Video

TED talk - Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready

In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very... (2020)


Video

How building prosthetic hands can help you give your best | Lain Hensley | TEDxChicoSalon

From dog houses to bicycles and beyond, Lain has found a space to expand both inspiration and ability around the world. Lain Hensley has traveled i... (2019)


Video

Odyssey Teams' Helping Hands Program: LN-4 Prosthetic Hand Recipients

Helping Hands | http://odysseyteams.com | (800) 342-1650 In this video, we show recipients of the LN-4 Prosthetic Hand. The prosthetic hands are pa... (2019)


Video

Helping Hands by Odyssey Teams | Giving An Amputee a Prosthetic Hand

Odyssey Teams had the opportunity to help this man by making him a prosthetic hand through our Helping Hands team building program. This is a life-... (2019)


Video

Helping Hands Instructional Build / Charitable, CSR Team Building Kit from Odyssey Teams

Helping Hands | http://odysseyteams.com | (800) 342-1650 In this video, Lain Hensley shows us how to put together a prosthetic hand from Odyssey Te... (2019)


Video

Is marijuana bad for your brain? - TED ED - Anees Bahji

Explore how marijuana’s two main active compounds, THC and CBD, affect your brain and body, and what risk factors to watch out for. -- In 1970, mar... (2019)


Video

How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

TED-Ed Published on Jun 21, 2016 When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the mo... (2019)


Video

How To Simplify Your Life - (video) School of Life

What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life; we feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities, schedules, commitments and obligat... (2019)


Video

Why calories are a con | The Economist

Calorie-counting has been central to people's understanding of weight loss for over a century. Given that the great majority of diets fail—could th... (2019)


Video

Hershey has a plan to keep impulse shopping alive - CNN

Hershey knows how to get you to make impulse purchases, if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to... (2018)


Video

TED - The world needs all kinds of minds | Temple Grandin

Autism activist Temple Grandin talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problem... (2018)


Video

Basic Capoeira Movements and Names

This video is intended to help beginner students learn basic capoeira movements and associate them with a name. Most of these movements are require... (2018)


Video

This is How Much Sugar is In a Can of Coke

In 140 seconds, Dave Rubin demonstrates how much sugar is in one can of coca-cola. Comment below or tweet your thoughts to Dave at https://twitter.... (2018)


Video

Why eating healthy is so expensive in America - YouTube

Produce helps your health and hurts your wallet, but some strategies may change that. The American dinner plate is deficient in nutritious produce... (2018)


Podcast

Siddhartha Mukherjee on the future of disease and diagnostics

Will artificial intelligence change what it means to be human? Cancer physician, researcher, and author Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the podcast to h... (2023)


Podcast

Dr. Matthew Hill: How Cannabis Impacts Health & the Potential Risks - Huberman Lab

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, my guest is Dr. Matthew Hill, Ph.D., a professor of cell biology and anatomy ... (2024)


Podcast

The Science of Healthy Hair, Hair Loss and How to Regrow Hair - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

In this episode, I explain the biology of hair, hair growth, why hair growth slows and what causes hair to stop growing and/or “fall out.” I discus... (2023)


Podcast

Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how dopamine dynamics — meaning changes and interactions between ou... (2023)


Podcast

Developing a Rational Approach to Supplementation for Health & Performance - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how to design a supplementation protocol to support maximum mental ... (2023)


Podcast

Using Caffeine to Optimize Mental & Physical Performance | Episode 101 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how to use caffeine to enhance mental and physical health and perfo... (2022)


Podcast

Nicotine’s Effects on the Brain & Body & How to Quit Smoking or Vaping | Episode 90 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how nicotine impacts the brain and body, including its potent ability to enhance attention, foc... (2022)


Podcast

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)


Podcast

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Episode 39 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass”. I discuss the immensely powerful chem... (2022)


Podcast

Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones | Episode 46 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss how our brain and body track time and the role that neurochemicals,... (2022)


Podcast

How to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome for Brain & Overall Health | Episode 61 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss the profound effect the gut has on the nervous system. I cover the ... (2022)


Podcast

Dr. Justin Sonnenburg: How to Build, Maintain & Repair Gut Health | Episode 62 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. My guest this episode is Dr. Justin Sonnenburg, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Stan... (2022)


Podcast

What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health | Episode 86 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss the physiological effects that drinking alcohol has on the brain an... (2022)


Podcast

Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration | Episode 88 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I provide a list of behavioral, nutritional, and supplement-based tools you c... (2022)


Podcast

The Effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) on the Brain & Body | Episode 92 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss cannabis (aka marijuana), including the biological mechanisms under... (2022)


Podcast

Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data - 80,000 Hours podcast

Max runs Our World in Data, a small education nonprofit which began the pandemic with just six staff. But since last February his team has supplied... (2021)


Podcast

The enduring mystery of long Covid - Today, Explained | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symp... (2021)


Podcast

Author Walter Isaacson On The Gene Editing Revolution - Fresh Air | NPR

Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)


Podcast

Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)


Podcast

Bio Eats World: May I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please? - Andreessen Horowitz

There's been a lot of talk (including on this show!) about the many kinds of innovations and technologies changing healthcare delivery for clinicia... (2021)


Podcast

A Safer Psychedelic: non-hallucinogenic derivatives of psychedelics - a16z

On Bio Eats World, we discuss of new research creating safer, non-hallucinogenic derivatives of psychedelics for the treatment of depression and ad... (2021)


Podcast

Solving Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare - a16z

Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue to rise rapidly, while the cost of goods rise much more slowly? According to econom... (2020)


Podcast

Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Pfizer Vaccine Doses? - The New York Times | Podcast

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)


Podcast

COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to... (2020)


Podcast

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive. - Should This Exist? - Podcast

Listen to this episode from Should This Exist? on Spotify. It’s one of the best weapons we have to contain a pandemic. But can it defe... (2020)


Podcast

Rapid Response: The Covid test facts every CEO needs - Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

Listen to this episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman on Spotify. To safely re-open a business, you need more than masks. Cov... (2020)


Podcast

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz

Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)


Podcast

The truth about herd immunity - Vox | Today, Explained Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Some people think it’s the only way out of the pandemic. Those people are very wrong. Tran... (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)


Podcast

"My Lungs Are Still Not the Same": The Long Road to Recovery from COVID-19 | The Takeaway

The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)


Book

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, by Bill Gates

Governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are thinking about what happens after the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we hope to not only ward... (2024)


Book

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)


Book

Dying for a Paycheck | Stanford Graduate School of Business

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job st... (2018)


Website

Examine - Evidence-based Analysis on Supplements & Nutrition

Examine simplifies nutrition and supplementation — through meticulous analysis of the latest scientific research — to help answer your questions on... (2023)


Website

MuscleWiki - Understand your body, simplify your workout

Select a muscle, and it tells you what workout (2021)


Website

medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)


Website

Ten Percent Happier: Mindfulness Meditation Courses

New to meditation? Get fidgety just thinking about it? Our expert teachers will walk you through the basics, one breath at a time. (2020)


Website

IHME - COVID-19 Projections (state by state)

Explore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths (2020)


Website

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)


Website

Help With COVID 19 - a clearing house for projects and volunteers

Help With COVID 19 - a clearing house for projects and volunteers that want to help with the COVID-19 crisis. These projects were posted... (2020)


Website

COVID19 Update & Guidance to Limit Spread

These guidelines are intended to help Flatten the Curve with the COVID19 outbreak, to help limit spread and reduce the load on hospitals and other ... (2020)


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