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Medicine & infectious disease Videos Recommended on Hacker News (141)
Medicine & infectious disease is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 141 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
University of California Television (UCTV)
13 HN recommender · 2010–2024
11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
CGP Grey
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
9 mo on HNDr. Michael Greger | How Not To Die | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
8 HN recommender · 2016–2022
9 mo on HNWhy Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction
CGP Grey
11 HN recommender · 2015–2024
8 mo on HNSunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin)
MedCram - Medical Lectures Explained CLEARLY
6 HN recommender · 2022–2024
8 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
Low Carb Down Under
7 HN recommender · 2017–2022
7 mo on HNMinding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity
TEDx Talks
7 HN recommender · 2011–2022
6 mo on HNWhy We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
6 HN recommender · 2011–2022
5 mo on HNFasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
The Galen Foundation
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
7 mo on HNThe Epidemic of Fake Disease
Medlife Crisis
7 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Beckman Institute at Illinois
5 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNI Found The Source of the Coronavirus
laowhy86
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNType 2 diabetes | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU
TEDx Talks
4 HN recommender · 2015–2022
5 mo on HNSimulating an epidemic
3Blue1Brown
8 HN recommender · 2020–2023
5 mo on HNThe Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
Harvard Medical School
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNBret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?
Bret Weinstein
7 HN recommender · 2020–2021
5 mo on HNOpioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
5 HN recommender · 2016–2024
5 mo on HNPenn and Teller on Vaccinations
UltraMiraculous
6 HN recommender · 2013–2018
5 mo on HNRun for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
5 mo on HNFat Chance: Fructose 2.0
University of California Television (UCTV)
5 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNexercises for tendinitis (tendonitis) and carpal tunnel (cps)
David Kuckhermann
4 HN recommender · 2009–2018
4 mo on HNRinging in Ears Tinnitus Treatment
ringinginearsv
4 HN recommender · 2016–2023
4 mo on HNHow I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNDr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'
Low Carb Down Under
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNYou Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15
Asian Boss
4 HN recommender · 2020–2020
4 mo on HNThe Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk
Healthcare Triage
4 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HNBuild a Do-It-Yourself Air Purifier for About $40
Michigan Medicine
5 HN recommender · 2012–2022
3 mo on HNThe effects of DBS on the motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
Andrew Johnson
5 HN recommender · 2013–2016
4 mo on HNProf. Thomas Seyfried - 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapies'
Low Carb Down Under
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNBreakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HNMosquito trap DIY 8,000 mosquito kill reduce ZIKA DENGUE MALARIA MaxxAir Fan CO2
GREENPOWERSCIENCE
4 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HNDoctor Dissects the Wim Hof Method - Cold Hard Science Analysis
Medlife Crisis
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNHow to Cure Aging – During Your Lifetime?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNThe Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HNDid SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?
potholer54
4 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNMichael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
Curt Jaimungal
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026