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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11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
9 mo on HNWhy Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction
7 mo on HNThe Epidemic of Fake Disease
5 mo on HNSimulating an epidemic
4 mo on HNThe Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk
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 HNHow wildlife trade is linked to coronavirus
3 mo on HNAm I still lactose tolerant? - Lactose Gene Therapy Update
3 mo on HND is for Debacle - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human Health
3 mo on HNHow The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
3 mo on HNYour Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago
3 mo on HNThe Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection
2 mo on HNYou Are Immune Against Every Disease
2 mo on HNIf money was no object, should you run every medical test?
2 mo on HNAll you need to know to understand 5G
2 mo on HNVitamin D and Immunity, Lots of Evidence
2 mo on HNCyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?
2 mo on HNWhy Are American Health Care Costs So High?
1 mo on HNExponential growth and epidemics
1 mo on HNA Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
1 mo on HNIs 5G Spelling Our DOOM?! How EM Waves Can Hurt
1 mo on HNA man asked AI for health advice and it cooked every brain cell
1 mo on HNThe IGF-1 Trade-Off: Performance vs. Longevity
1 mo on HNExercise Is Really Good for You. Like, REALLY Good for You.
1 mo on HNGiving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won't tell you how much.
1 mo on HNGenetic Engineering and Diseases – Gene Drive & Malaria
1 mo on HNVitamin D and immunity
1 mo on HNInadvertant intravenous injections
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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