With the countless daytime talk shows starring and featuring doctors, nurses, and other medical specialists, discovering new ways to live a healthy life is just a remote click away. Although their shows might draw you in with incredible facts and mind-blowing secrets to weight loss success, it's important to take each televised recommendation with a bit of suspicion—most of these familiar faces aren't exactly telling the truth.
This is a great technique that ought to be mastered by all in the medical profession. It's also useful around the house when your hands are tied!
Prostate cancer is by no means a fun time--but preventing it can be! Want proof? Have a glass of wine!
More than 250,000 breast enhancement surgeries were performed in America last year. So what's the big deal with breast augmentation?
Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma are the two types of non-melanoma skin cancers. Luckily, there are many options for treating them.
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition of frightening hallucinations and paranoid episodes. In this video, we'll look at the personality disorder of a schizophrenic, and discuss ways in which this mental illness can manifest itself.
Twenty-five percent of Americans suffer from a sleep disorder that keeps them tossing and turning on a regular basis. Learn more about common sleep disorders like narcolepsy, sleepwalking, and sleep apnea in this video.
GAD, or generalized anxiety disorder, is a panic disorder that can create intense stress on a day-to-day basis. In this mental health video, we'll look at understanding and living with this mental illness.
One-third of diabetics don't know that they have the condition. How can you avoid being one of them? Check out this video!
Are those uncomfortable pangs you're feeling in your chest just your standard after-dinner heartburn? Or is something more serious at work?
Seizures can take a variety of forms. Learn more in this video.
Did you know that some asthma-sufferers have no trouble breathing? A different variety of the disease, cough-variant asthma, is just as serious as the more common version.
Every woman goes through menopause, yet many don't discuss this natural time of life. Learn more in this video.
Hot flashes and vaginal dryness are just the start of the symptoms you may experience as you enter menopause! What else can you expect?
Some women enter menopause quietly, while others want to know when it's happening. Here's how doctors may identify the change.
When you go through menopause, you stop menstruating. And when you undergo a hysterectomy, the effect is the same. Yet menopause and hysterectomy are distinctly different.
Over twelve million restless legs sufferers want to know what causes the symptoms of restless leg syndrome, the sleep-depriving condition.
Each year, one and half million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. If you or a loved one are among them, understanding the basics of the disease can help.
Cancer doesn't discriminate, and anyone can get this disease. However, some factors can increase your likelihood of developing cancer.
Over 300,000 Americans who are infected with HIV don't even know it! Learn how to avoid being among them.
Pink eye, or conjunctivitis as your doctor may call it, is a contagious disease that affects many college students. Blame close quarters and bad hygiene for this itchy ailment that affects the eyes. Here's how to treat and even avoid this condition.
You know you're in pain, but are you just feeling the aftershocks of that spaghetti dinner, or is it a heart attack?
Every year, 250,000 Americans are diagnosed with a form of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma. What exactly is SCC?
If you know the triggers that bring on a migraine you can more easily sidestep experiencing one.
Heart disease affects more than 20 million Americans. Let's explore the various forms that heart disease can take.
The hamstring is a large muscle in the back of the thigh. A hamstring injury is a partial tear of the muscle. Learn how to diagnose and treat a hamstring injury in this medical how to video.
This tutorial for Devil May Cry 3 covers the basics of jump canceling and the overall advantages it will provide the player once mastered. The whole concept of a Jump Cancel (JC/JCing for short) is the cancellation of an aerial technique with a jump.
The HoloLens has become a frequent sight in medical facilities around the world, but a new demonstration shows just how seamlessly it can be integrated into traditional medical procedures to improve the experience for physicians and patients alike.
How would you feel if the stethoscope used by your doctor to listen to your heart and lungs was teeming with potentially unfriendly bacteria?
If you don't have the time or patience to build a complete Ant-Man suit from scratch, there's another way to make a Ant-Man costume for Halloween. If you're more skilled with brushes and makeup rather than drills and cardboard, this is the Halloween DIY for you—especially if you're a fan of the Marvel universe.
Looking for a costume that breaks the mold of skimpy and clinging fabrics? Stay warm on Halloween and impress at any spooky event by turning yourself into a perfect recreation of the apes in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
If smartphone video games have a weakness, it's probably their inability to emulate the riveting and immersive experience that consoles offer.
A lot of my hacks use salvaged parts from an old microwave, with the microwave oven transformer (MOT) being the most useful component.
Although it's been several years since Angry Birds first came out, it's still going strong in the App Store, currently third place on the Top Free Apps chart. The new Angry Birds Star Wars is sixth place on the Top Paid Apps chart. What does this show us? Those pesky birds can't be shooed away.
While the PlayStation and Xbox models may rule the current world of gaming, there are still those who love to keep it old school. The grittiness, toughness and nostalgia that is laced throughout old gaming consoles appeals to many people. Every time I play Donkey Kong 64 (with the expansion pack of course!), I revert back to the days of Sunday morning cartoons and only worrying about homework.
This medical how-to video demonstrates an open emergency cricothyrotomy. A cricothyrotomy is an emergency incision made through the skin and the cricothyroid membrane. This emergency procedure is performed to ensure that a patient is receiving air. Watch and learn how this procedure is performed. This video is intended for medical students only.
This medical how-to video demonstrates an open emergency cricothyrotomy. A cricothyrotomy is an emergency incision made through the skin and the cricothyroid membrane. This emergency procedure is performed to ensure that a patient is receiving air. Watch and learn how this procedure is performed in an emergency room. This video is intended for medical students only.
This medical how-to video is a presentation detailing an endotracheal intubation. Watch and learn the proper technique for intubating a patient. This medical video is intended for nursing and health related students.
Want to know what a septum is? An aorta? The bicuspid valve? These are all parts of the human heart, and in these educational tutorial videos, you'll learn all you need to know about the physiology of the human heart. Anatomy, biology, physiology... it's all science, so no matter what field you are studying, these will be very helpful for you in your further medical studies, or for just know-it-all knowledge.
Always make sure to check with your doctor before implementing any medical advice! Labor can take awhile, and sometimes, exercise can help labor progress and alleviate the pain. It also can open up the pelvis, which leads to an easier delivery as well. This tutorial gives expectant mothers are few useful labor exercises.
