Medicine & infectious disease Videos Recommended on Hacker News (113)
Medicine & infectious disease is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 113 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 359 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Medicine: diseases, vaccines, pandemics, COVID-19, epidemiology, public health, WHO, cancer, surgery, medical technology, drug development, aging research, healthcare quality.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH: “This is one of the best nutritional videos I've ever seen.” — an HN commenter, 2010.
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12 mo on HNSugar: THE BITTER TRUTH
11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
9 mo on HNWhy Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction
8 mo on HNSunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin)
8 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
7 mo on HNMinding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity
6 mo on HNWhy We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
5 mo on HNFasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
7 mo on HNThe Epidemic of Fake Disease
6 mo on HN"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
5 mo on HNI Found The Source of the Coronavirus
6 mo on HNType 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU
5 mo on HNSimulating an epidemic
5 mo on HNThe Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
5 mo on HNBret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?
5 mo on HNOpioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
5 mo on HNPenn and Teller on Vaccinations
5 mo on HNRun for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC
5 mo on HNFat Chance: Fructose 2.0
4 mo on HNexercises for tendinitis (tendonitis) and carpal tunnel (cps)
4 mo on HNRinging in Ears Tinnitus Treatment
4 mo on HNHow I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
4 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
3 mo on HNYou Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15
4 mo on HNThe Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk
4 mo on HNBuild a Do-It-Yourself Air Purifier for About $40
3 mo on HNThe effects of DBS on the motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
4 mo on HNProf. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
3 mo on HNBreakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google
4 mo on HNMosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2
4 mo on HNDoctor Dissects the Wim Hof Method - Cold Hard Science Analysis
3 mo on HNHow to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime?
4 mo on HNThe Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
4 mo on HNDid SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?
3 mo on HNMichael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
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Mentioned in HN threads about medicine & infectious disease, though never formally recommended:
Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership; praises China · Geoff Hinton: On Radiology · TWiV 615: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance · An Update On Dianna's Health · Harris On Vaccine: 'If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I’m Not Taking It.' | NBC News · How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it) · 旷野青春 | 隐形防线（英文字幕版） · President Trump claims injecting people with disinfectant could treat coronavirus · A real, not-clickbaity, average Chinese wet market · President Trump Suggests ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant as Coronavirus Cure | NBC New York · Why Weren't We Wearing Masks From the Beginning? Dr. Anthony Fauci Explains · Virtuo Vivo™ live scanning at IDS 2019 · Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant Into The Body To Treat Coronavirus | MSNBC · Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives · How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric · OSCON 2011: Karen Sandler · Original Zoloft Commercial · Dr.Christina Sanchez explains how cannabis kills cancer cells (MORE at cureyourowncancer.org) · New Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in SlowMotion | National Geographic · Drone Delivery Start-Up Zipline Beats Amazon, UPS And FedEx To The Punch | CNBC · Resveratrol – The Unfortunate (& Scandalous) Story · Infant girl with whooping cough · TWiV 641: COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci · More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette · ✖️Coronavirus TIMELINE · Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids' Care · First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl) · British Army on LSD (Acid) drugs