Videos

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and evolutionary sociobiologist Thomas Patterson talked about their book, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A…

U.S. Army Medical Department Museum director George Wunderlich shared stories of army medics in times of war. He talked about a nurse killed in Vietnam, a World War II dentist who…

We toured the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to see several advances made by Army medics in the past 200 years. Director George Wunderlich showed us…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel talked about his book, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, in which he explored the…

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee regarding President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request…

Dr. Eric Topol talked about his book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Revolutionize Health Care--And Make It More Humane, in which he explored the integration of artificial…

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and John Barrasso (R-WY) debated Medicare and other topics related to health care.

Rutgers University history professor Janet Golden talked about the impact infants had on 20th century developments in medicine, social welfare and consumer culture. The Kansas City Public…

MIT Technology Review’s Antonio Regalado discussed his recent piece about “hyper-personalized” medicine and the inequality about who can afford it. This program is part of a “Washington…

Midwives have been helping women give birth throughout American history, but over the past 100 years their legal standing and relationship with the medical community has been complicated by…

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins testified before the Senate Health Committee about ongoing science and research at NIH. He was joined by four of his colleagues who…

Paul Offit discussed the risks of getting medical advice from everyone other than a doctor.

Historian Edith Sheffer recounted how Austrian doctor Hans Asperger, whose work led to a better understanding of autism, was complicit in the deaths of children by the Third Reich.

Stephanie Devaney talked about precision medicine and how it can improve health and treatment strategies.

Michael Pollan reported on the medical and scientific uses and affects of psychedelic drugs.

Feministing editor Maya Dusenbery reported on the barriers women face while seeking medical care.

Tim Clarke, deputy director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, presented items from the museums’s Civil War collection. Some viewers may find images…

Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer comments on the personal impact of cancer. The Hill's Rafael Bernal spoke by phone the deadline for the Trump administration to reunite…

Two House subcommittees examined medical technologies designed to help veterans. Some of the innovations include robotic exoskeletons to help veterans walk and a system to monitor those afflicted…

Historian and author Jane Schultz discussed women who were Civil War hospital workers. She is the author of Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America.. The Library of…