Why do We Brush Our Teeth? | Health for Kids | SciShow Kids
[Music playing] Yawn! It’s almost bed time here at the fort! But before we get tucked in, we’ve got to brush our teeth! Hey, that’s a good question, Squeaks. We do it a couple...
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What is IBS? (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Hello, in this HealthSketch we’re going to talk about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, a very common long-term condition that affects the digestive system. It is slightly more common in women than men, and...
How blood pressure works – Wilfred Manzano
If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 95,000 kilometers long and everyday, they carry the equivalent of over 7,500 liters of blood, though that’s actually the same four...
Viewing prostate cancer aggressiveness in a unique way
So magnetic resonance imaging is a technique that’s used very commonly in a clinical setting in order to be able to diagnose disease, as well as evaluate response to therapy. In the conventional sense,...
Female Bladder Leakage: Solutions to Get Control | Christopher Tarnay, MD | UCLAMDChat
Good morning good afternoon or even good evening depending on where you’re coming from welcome my name is Dr. Christopher Tarnay and I am the chief of uro-gynecology here at UCLA in the department...
Why haven’t we cured arthritis? – Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust
While regaling you with daring stories from her youth, it might be hard to believe your grandmother used to be a trapeze artist. However, the bad backs, elbow pain, and creaky knees so common...
Radiation therapy for prostate cancer: What to expect
I’m Dr. Danny Vesprini, Radiation Oncologist at Sunnybrook, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. I treat prostate cancer and other malignancies. Prostate cancer is the most...
Asthma, Animation.
Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition where the airways in the lungs are inflamed and narrowed causing breathlessness, wheezing, chest tightness and coughing. Symptoms come as recurrent episodes known as asthmatic attacks most commonly...
Are Antioxidants Actually Good for Anything?
[INTRO ♪] It seems like every week, there’s a news article claiming you should consume more antioxidants, be it through fancy smoothies or sciencey-sounding supplements. This antioxidant craze goes back a long time to...
What is Alzheimer’s disease? – Ivan Seah Yu Jun
Every four seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the most common cause of dementia, affecting over 40 million people worldwide, and yet finding a cure is something that still eludes researchers today....
