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The Relationship Between Populations, Samples and Generalizabiliy

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Stop trying to fix disability | Molly Burke #WalrusTalks

Molly Burke lives in a world that is not made for her, or people like her. For most of her life, people around her have tried to cure her blindness. But she does not see her disability as something…

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Obamacare vs. Affordable Care Act #2

Back in 2013 we conducted an experiment on our show. We went out on the street and asked people which was better: Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare is of course just a nickname for the…

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Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later

In which John Green pauses, five years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, to consider what we know so far about the law's effectiveness and repercussions. I also look at health…

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Has the ACA Medicaid Expansion Been a Success?

Subscribe to Healthcare Triage! https://bit.ly/2GlEYWG The ACA expanded Medicaid coverage to a lot of people, and it was implemented differently in lots of states. So, what happened? Lots of…

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Medicare and Medicaid at 50

With Medicare and Medicaid turning 50 this year, KFF provides a brief history of both programs, including an examination of the health care, social and political landscape that gave rise to them, the…

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What is Health Insurance, and Why Do You Need It?: Health Care Triage #2

In this episode of Healthcare Triage, Dr. Aaron Carroll gets some surprised questions from "friend of Obama" John Green who is still waiting for his big government giveaway . Unfortunately,…

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The Healthcare System of the United States

We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're…

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Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation?

In which John discusses the tradeoffs involved in health care reform, and why the 70% of Americans who are happy with their personal health care make it difficult to achieve more than incremental…

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*Winner* Funding Basic Science to Revolutionize Medicine, 2013 FASEB Stand Up for Science

Tell Congress that science funding is important: http://capwiz.com/faseb/issues/alert/?alertid=63078836 "Funding Basic Science to Revolutionize Medicine" was submitted by Florie Charles,…

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The game that can give you 10 extra years of life | Jane McGonigal

http://www.ted.com When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific…

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Bridging the Gap Improving Healthcare Access for People with Disabilities

Healthcare providers do not receive adequate training to practice culturally sensitive care to those with disabilities. This creates a barrier to primary and emergency medicine. Melissa shares her…

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The Facts About Radon Gas - It's Deadly

Video courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov/radon) Radon is a cancer-causing natural radioactive gas that you cant see, smell or taste. Its presence in your home can pose…

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Sampling Population Sample and Generalizability

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How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin

You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but…

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How to read a survival curve

Survival curves are often used to show that one treatment is better than the other - this cartoon explains how to read them

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